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n. - Fine white hard dirt used in making tobacco products and pottery and in whitening leather.

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Usage examples (34)
  • For this purpose any good pipeclay may be employed.
  • The master-at-arms, scarlet-uniformed, his white pipeclay trimming resplendent, stamped out of the guard cabin.
  • Arrange the pieces of carpet on the board, and mark off the size of each part required with a piece of chalk or pipeclay.
  • Some criminal lunatic strutting in pipeclay and mustachios was given his hour of authority and took the chance of his life.
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