What is "fireclay"

Usage examples of "fireclay".

Stoves were made of fireclay and mica, which would give both heat and light and would be more efficient than open fireplaces.

It was as though her face was a sheet of wet fireclay, and her eyes two fingered out holes.

Skotophagotis merely looked at him, calm astride his ass, his shadow thrown before him, foreshortened and deadly on the old royal road, its fireclay bricks crumbling for lack of repair.

To them, God had been extra kind, because just below all this beauty He had placed seams of coal, anything from eighteen inches to eighteen feet wide, and beds of fireclay and iron ore.

There is a lot of information on where to find the various fireclays, and how to mix them for desired refractories.