brickdust

That slime we shall find in most cases composed of clay (or brickdust, which is burnt clay), mixed with soot, a little sand and water.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

That slime we shall find in most cases composed of clay (or brickdust, which is burnt clay), mixed with soot, a little sand and water.

The Ethics of the Dust John Ruskin 1859

It is frequently adulterated with earthy substances, such as brickdust, red ochre, and colcotha.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

This ourth of years is not save brickdust and being humus the same roturns.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Brushing his new suit free of brickdust and cobwebs, he called across to the inspector that he'd finished.

Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

Being cheaper than formerly, vermilion is not so much adulterated as it once was; although, even now, brickdust, orpiment, &c. sometimes sophisticate it.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

It is often sophisticated with brickdust and yellow ochre.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

This is presuming the root to be genuine, for madder is often adulterated with brickdust, red ochre, red sand, clay, mahogany sawdust, logwood, sandal and japan-wood, and bran.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

He is dressed in a shawl turban, brickdust-red mantle, and the rest of the costume which he adopted in his Eastern travels.

Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 Various

As she observed that the key had got stained with blood in falling on the floor, she wiped it two or three times to clean it; but the blood still remained; she next washed it; but the blood did not go; she then scoured it with brickdust, and afterwards with sand.

Favorite Fairy Tales Logan Marshall