chalkboard
[chawk-bawrd, -bohrd]
- a blackboard, especially a green or other light-colored one.
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Origin of chalkboard
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A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.
Then they stood in front of the chalkboard, smug and self-satisfied.
“We have classes here,” she adds, pointing to a chalkboard behind her.
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They were painted as quickly as possible, in front of their subjects – a tombstone and a chalkboard.
chalkboard
- 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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