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UK
/tʃˈɔːki/
]
ADJECTIVE
- composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk
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of something having the color of chalk
she turned chalky white
How To Use chalky In A Sentence
- There's also a cloying crème brûlée made with semolina, and a refreshingly chalky caramel parfait on a bed of thinly sliced stewed pears.
- The region's benign climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream.
- These are best deployed as fun colours with a slightly chalky texture so that they appear positive, but not eye-popping.
- Waste products were dumped and over the years a chalky layer has been produced.
- They had forced down her throat the gobs of chalky calomel mixed with laudanum prescribed by the head-shaking doctor until her gums bled.
- The interior of the tunnel is mostly bricked, with a few recently-repaired patches, and tiny lengths of chalky deposit hang down like trainee stalactites.
- The lack of urobilin in the feces will be apparent from the light brown to chalky white color of the stools.
- But ask him to sit through some hotel cabarets and his hair will rise to the perpendicular and his face will turn a chalky shade of green.
- The water at the Croydon end of the stream is chalky which makes it cleaner.
- The soils of Champagne are chalky and full of minerals and the climate is on the cool side for making fine table wines.