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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

“I forbid you to answer this fellow—” Sprudell’s voice shook and his pink face had again taken on the curious chalkiness of color which it became under stress of feeling.

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline

In colour Romney is very unequal; in his own day it was notoriously inferior to Reynolds's, though in spite of some instances of chalkiness and thinness, generally rich, pure, and lustrous.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton