Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soft metamorphic rock composed mostly of the mineral talc.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of steatite (see
talc ); specifically, a piece of such stone used when heated for a griddle, a foot-warmer, or other like purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
steatite , andtalc .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology a soft
rock , rich intalc , also containingserpentine and eithermagnetite ,dolomite orcalcite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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~ One carven image of the goddess Sekmet, seated on her throne, two inches high, carved in soapstone, caked with an iron rich clay, oxidized to a deep blood red.
The 13th Page cavalaxis 2007
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~ One carven image of the goddess Sekmet, seated on her throne, two inches high, carved in soapstone, caked with an iron rich clay, oxidized to a deep blood red.
Archive 2007-07-01 cavalaxis 2007
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One carven image of the goddess Sekmet, seated on her throne, two inches high, carved in soapstone, caked with an iron rich clay, oxidized to a deep blood red.
The 13th Page cavalaxis 2007
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One carven image of the goddess Sekmet, seated on her throne, two inches high, carved in soapstone, caked with an iron rich clay, oxidized to a deep blood red.
Archive 2007-07-01 cavalaxis 2007
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And the use of the soapstone is a really nice choice for an alternative to plastic.
VOTE NOW & Judge Student Eco Design Competition! | Inhabitat 2008
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These the doctor declared to be formed of the mineral known as soapstone, and pointed out in them specks of gold still adhering to the glaze.
Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain George Manville Fenn 1870
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This rock is miscalled soapstone, which it resembles in some of its properties and uses.
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It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel.
Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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"Rather so," replied the Captain, "but hardly more so than the two little drinking-cups we carved out of the same kind of soapstone that we made the lamp and pot of."
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If you had paid $40 for a figure marked "soapstone," then found out it was jade, would you give $100 back to the estate sale company?
LJWorld.com stories: News Terry Kovel 2010
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