bone earth

noun

1. bone ash.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bone earth¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

‘I don’t like anything here at all,’ said Frodo, ‘step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid.’

From Literature

Models were draped in soft fabrics and neutral tones of bone, earth, sage and dusk.

From Reuters

It is in this series that we have the first evidence of life, and it is here also that we find the greatest abundance of carbon, in the form of graphite or plumbago, and also large quantities of calcium phosphate, or bone earth.

From Project Gutenberg

The modern Lingula is protected by a delicate two-valved shell, composed, unlike that of most other mollusks, of phosphate of lime or bone earth.

From Project Gutenberg

From the bone earth there were taken fifteen knives, recognized, by the experienced antiquaries, as having been artificially formed.

From Project Gutenberg