chalk
noun
a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
Example Sentences
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And the chill can exacerbate a slight chalkiness that sometimes creeps into the rice.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
The drinks menu — recently revamped to feature only natural wines — includes Domaine Ligas’s assyrtiko, a white wine with notes of green grass and a slight chalkiness — but in a good way.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2019
They love it, because it gives great volume without causing scalps to itch, it doesn’t take excessive rubbing to work off the chalkiness and it smells natural and clean, rather than sweet and synthetic.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017
Durable as a rule, they are in general characterized by a fatal chalkiness, and poorness of hue.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
He is accused of introducing "a prevailing chalkiness" into his pictures, derived from his early studies in crayon.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler
