OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12599

clay

/kleɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alfar • arcilla • argilla • barro • buro • caolín • greda
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots fil…
arcilla
A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
The French Open is played on clay.
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