| 单词 | white earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite earth white earth n. clay or other earthy material that is light-coloured; (Painting) earth colour that is white. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > light-coloured white earth1448 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > other soils white earth1448 Chiltern?1530 light land1589 deads1653 rosil1691 moorland1753 prairie soil1817 residuum1828 rendzina1905 podzol1908 solonetz1924 solod1925 solonchak1925 pedalfer1928 pedocal1928 skeletal soil1932 peloid1933 sierozem1934 planosol1938 lithosol1939 regosol1949 andosol1958 Alfisol1960 Aridisol1960 Histosol1960 Spodosol1960 Andisol1978 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitener > [noun] > white pigment or paint white leadlOE whitea1300 blank plumbc1325 cerusec1405 white earth1448 Spanish white1546 litharge1551 mineral white1651 flake-white1660 Vienna white1816 permanent white1822 zinc white1847 constant white1854 Krems1854 Cremnitz1874 silver-white1875 lithoponea1884 baryta white1885 Charlton white1885 titanium white1920 1448 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1907) 13 51 (MED) We payde for white erthe to dawbe ye wallys, viii d. 1589 Voy. Sir F. Drake in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. sig. Mmm6v Fine China dishes of white earth, and great store of China silks. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 251 The skill that hath been wanting to set up a manufacture of this transparent Earthen-ware..is the glazing of the white Earth. 1732 tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chymistry I. 52 All natural history confirms that white wood, linen, paper, white-earth, burn slowly, but the blacks very quickly. 1843 W. A. Ferris in Life in Rocky Mts. (1940) xxv. 143 It [sc. a white clay] is sometimes found in various parts of the country, and is sometimes called ‘white earth’. 1910 A. P. Laurie Materials of Painter's Craft iv. 42 Then among the whites we have a large number of white earths, of which chalk is of course the most important. 1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 430/1 Because of its clarity and high absorbency, white earth is well suited for, and in limited use as, a base for certain lakes. 2001 Anthropos 96 16/2 They will tell the women that they need a jar of oil, a white chicken, and white earth to make the dead rise from their graves. < as lemmas |
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