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Terra alba

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Noun
  1. 1
    A white earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum and aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, such as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc. uncountable
  2. 2
    a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) wordnet
  3. 3
    fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather wordnet
  4. 4
    finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terra (“earth”) + alba (“white”), literally meaning "white earth". Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.

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