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red clay

NOUN
  1. clay whose redness results from iron oxide

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  • ALL my trees including my three foot tall tropical ficus are in either Japanese brown mud pots or Chinese red clay.
  • The earth is clay; the red clay that gave the town near to the village of Alvechurch, the name Redditch originally Red-Dych. Archive 2008-06-01
  • It was a three-sided adobe brick lean-to covered with red clay tile shingles laid over wooden rafters. Toyita grows flowers for the Virgin of Talpa
  • The youngster runs as hard as he can, kicking up red clay dust from his heels. Times, Sunday Times
  • Equally evocative was a work consisting of three white-enamel bathtubs absurdly linked with the same unfired clay to plumbing pipes passing (ordinarily unnoticed) through the gallery space.
  • A chibouk, or chibouque, was a Turkish tobacco pipe with a long stem and a red clay bowl.
  • Anyway, the ground was a very light grey, almost purple in places, a weathered clay or mudstone or siltstone of some sort. One of those WoW things.
  • Construction of temple complexes  A monochrome pottery design  Triangles, grids, zigzag lines were common (upper left)  Less decorative than the polychrome Halafian pottery originating in Syria  Ceramics made on slow - turning potter's wheel  For lack of workable stone and metals, tools were made of fired clay (notice ceramic sickles, lower left) Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • In addition, the rain forests are restricted to dolerite-derived red clay soils, which are highly moisture retentive. Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
  • As I was saying, in those old undramatic days of my school - teaching in the bundu, folks lived their lives on bush paths at the ends of unpaved roads of red clay, in villages of grass-roofed huts. Excerpt: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
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