From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishBakeliteBa‧ke‧lite /ˈbeɪkəlaɪt/ noun [uncountable] TI trademark a hard plastic used especially in the 1930s and 1940s to make things such as telephones and radios
Examples from the Corpus
Bakelite• It's time to take the wheel, in each case a slender Bakelite rim of sailing ship proportions. 