Definitions
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- noun a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments
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Examples
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The river had a soap-rock bottom that was free of silt and was green and cold and fed by springs even in August, and pooled with shadows from the giant trees that grew along the bank.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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The river had a soap-rock bottom that was free of silt and was green and cold and fed by springs even in August, and pooled with shadows from the giant trees that grew along the bank.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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The river had a soap-rock bottom that was free of silt and was green and cold and fed by springs even in August, and pooled with shadows from the giant trees that grew along the bank.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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The stones which they used were oblong, and pointed at each end, being made of a soft and unctuous soap-rock
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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The soap-rock, which h is the property of fuller's earth in cleansing cloth, is found here; also alum ore, free-stone fit for building, and a grey-stone, in great demand for mill-stones, reckoned equal in
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