pipe-clay in English
noun
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a fine white clay, used especially for making tobacco pipes or for whitening leather.
Neither pipeclay nor blanco reacted well to rain, and many men who fought at Waterloo, where it rained heavily the night before the battle, had uniforms streaked with pipeclay .
verb
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whiten (leather) with pipeclay.
The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
noun
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1. Crayon (n.) "pencil-shaped piece of colored clay, chalk, etc., used for drawing on paper," 1640s, from French Crayon "pencil" (16c.), originally "chalk pencil," from craie "chalk," from Latin creta "chalk, pipe-clay," which is of unknown origin