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argil

noun as in potter's clay

noun as in terra-cotta

Weak matches

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Example Sentences

The argil and soda soften the dye stuff of the copperas, but a small quantity must be put in.

The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light.

A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial124 of opaline glass.

So they toiled up the stiff and slippery slope, and found a scatter of crate-huts crowning a bald head of yellow argil.

Further: Webster doubles the l in all the derivatives of metal, medal, coral, axil, argil, and papil; but writes it single in all those of crystal, cavil, pupil, and tranquil—except tranquillity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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