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

In the blue of the evening I could not then discern that what I took to be houses were simply heaps of pipeclay.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

Churchill had again to withstand attacks upon his Army uniform proposals, this time on the ground that the reversion to scarlet and pipeclay would entail extra labour and expense upon the private soldier.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various

Each bag contained a knife, fork, spoon, tin canteen, shaving brush, soap, razor, boot brushes, clothes brush, hair brush, pipeclay, button polisher, cleaning paste, and a dozen other things just as interesting and as useful.

From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson

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