chloride of lime

English

Noun

chloride of lime (uncountable)

1. bleaching powder
   • 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 312 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):

     A rat scampered across the tin cans and burst sandbags, and trench atmosphere reasserted itself in a smell of chloride of lime.