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

When mourning for the dead, the hair is plastered all over with mud, and the eyes and forehead are painted round with pipeclay.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward

The general who directs the campaign might be sorely puzzled how to clean his musket or pipeclay his belt.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

The lower division consists of pale-yellow, current-bedded sand and loam, with layers of pipeclay and occasional beds of flint pebbles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

For this purpose any good pipeclay may be employed.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard