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chloride of lime en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) bleaching powder
    • A rat scampered across the tin cans and burst sandbags, and trench atmosphere reasserted itself in a smell of chloride of lime. 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 312 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):