chalkboard

[chawk-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

a blackboard, especially a green or other light-colored one.

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Origin of chalkboard

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40; chalk + board

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Examples from the Web for chalkboard

Contemporary Examples

A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.
The Congo's Forgotten Colonial Getaway
Nina Strochlic
December 18, 2014
Then they stood in front of the chalkboard, smug and self-satisfied.
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Kevin Fallon
April 17, 2014
“We have classes here,” she adds, pointing to a chalkboard behind her.
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February 27, 2014
They were painted as quickly as possible, in front of their subjects – a tombstone and a chalkboard.
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July 20, 2012

British Dictionary definitions for chalkboard

chalkboard

noun

US and Canadian a hard or rigid surface made of a smooth usually dark substance, used for writing or drawing on with chalk, esp in teachingAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): blackboard

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Word Origin and History for chalkboard

n.

also chalk-board, 1816, from chalk (n.) + board (n.1).

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