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

Who is to clean your boots, and to pipeclay your belts; to wash your linen, to clean your firelock, and cook your dinners, and pitch your tent, if you don't have a sarvint?

From The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War by Young, F. T.

Their knapsacks were hairy, and their belts black, the latter suggesting deliverance from that absurdity of old, pipeclay.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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

The cleaning materials—such as Bath-brick, soap, pipeclay, chrome-yellow, oil, blacking, etc—we could any time procure on credit from the sergeant-major of the troop, who booked our account and rendered it monthly.

From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.