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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pipeclay.

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Examples

  • I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.

    Dubliners 2003

  • He straightened self-consciously in his sea-purple cloak and pipeclayed linen tunic.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • Their coats were a brilliant scarlet, their crossbelts pipeclayed white, their boots a mirror-surfaced black.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • Their coats were a brilliant scarlet, their crossbelts pipeclayed white, their boots a mirror-surfaced black.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • His pipeclayed gloves clutched wildly at holster and cantle as he went over.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

  • He was clad in yellow pajamas, his bare feet in native sandals, and held a well pipeclayed topee in one hand.

    Civilization Tales of the Orient Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917

  • She took great pride in Enrico's white-duck suits and explained to me that she never let him wear one suit more than two days without its being washed and starched; and she always pipeclayed his shoes and carefully inspected him each morning before sending him forth to his day's work.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling

    Dubliners James Joyce 1911

  • His face was half hidden under a freshly pipeclayed

    The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901

  • There are two says of wearing well-oiled ankle-jacks, spotless blue bands, khaki coat and breeches, and a perfectly pipeclayed helmet.

    The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

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