potter's clay

American  

noun

1. a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.

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Etymology

Origin of potter's clay

First recorded in 1610–20

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potter's clay

Nietzsche was the Marx of the right, the original culture warrior who believed that the future belongs to those with the courage to face the nihilism of the present and mold it like potter’s clay.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2018

Fresh masa has a thicker consistency, more like potter’s clay, and it smells like slightly fermented corn syrup, especially if it sits out for 24 hours before you use it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2015

The first of these I shall call generally, henceforward, the school of crystal; the other that of clay: potter's clay, or human, are too sorrowfully the same, as far as art is concerned.

From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by Ruskin, John

Why, it is a kind of potter's clay which never has been found within twenty leagues around; there is none known of nearer than Wlodzimiez.

From Iermola by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

The multitude stands between Destiny on the one side, and the Hero on the other; a sport to the first, and as potter's clay to the second.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John