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Leighton Buzzard, n.|ˈleɪtən ˈbʌzəd|
[The name of a town in Bedfordshire, southern England.]
Used attrib. to designate a light-coloured sand quarried in Leighton Buzzard and used esp. in refractory moulding and as a standard in cement testing.
1916P. G. H. Boswell Sands Suitable for Glass-Making vi. 49 ‘Leighton Buzzard’ sand... The available resources are at least 500 million tons. 1923A. B. Searle Sands & Crushed Rocks I. iii. 119 The Leighton Buzzard Sands vary from nearly pure white to pale yellow sands associated with carbonaceous matter to highly ferruginous deposits. 1950E. Lucas Newbold's Mod. Pract. Building (ed. 3) I. xiii. 337 Sands of light colour, such as Leighton Buzzard sand, are also used to make pointing mortar. 1965J. Kolbuszewski Sand Particles & their Density 53 The effect of particle shape was studied using two sands—Leighton Buzzard sand (rounded) and Biddulph Medium sand (angular). |