pipeclay, terra alba
(noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pipeclay (countable and uncountable, plural pipeclays)
catlinite
• pipestone
pipeclay (third-person singular simple present pipeclays, present participle pipeclaying, simple past and past participle pipeclayed)
(transitive) To whiten by application of pipeclay.
(transitive, slang, dated, UK) To clear off.
to pipeclay accounts
Source: Wiktionary
Pipe"clay`, v. t.
1. To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.
2. To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts. [Slang, Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 February 2025
(noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; “he writes stories for the magazines”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
