pipeclay

British  

/ ˈpaɪpˌkleɪ /

noun

1. a fine white pure clay, used in the manufacture of tobacco pipes and pottery and for whitening leather and similar materials

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verb

1. (tr) to whiten with pipeclay

Example Sentences

The reason they looked so fresh was that every year, for centuries, Australian aborigines had retouched them with red and yellow ocher and pipeclay white.

From Time Magazine Archive

I like pipeclay, and facings, and camp gossip.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

Stephen, it seems, had discovered that there were not only brick earth and pipeclay but mineral springs and coal under the barren soil.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

In other kennels, bull-terriers' white coats were still further whitened by the harsh rubbing of pipeclay into the tender skin.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

"No," said Stapylton; "my old brother-officer and myself got into pipeclay and barrack talk, and strolled away down here unconsciously."

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James