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Definition of Chalkiest
1. chalky [adj] - See also: chalky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalkiest
Literary usage of Chalkiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books: Or Books Written by Members of by Joseph Smith (1867)
"8vo. Barbados, printed 1735. Reprinted.—The 2nd edition. ... 8vo. Barbados,printed.
1735. 1 Works, page 576 A Collection of the Works of THOMAS chalkiest. ..."
2. Common Diseases by Woods Hutchinson (1913)
"They are not a particle more bilious than the palest and chalkiest-faced blonde.
Those of us with more than a certain amount of pigment in our skins, ..."
3. Old-time Travel: Personal Reminiscences of the Continent Forty Years Ago by Alexander Innes Shand (1903)
"... the dustiest, and the chalkiest in Europe. You were always aggravating an
unquenchable thirst with iced glasses of all manner of seductive innocent ..."
4. Greek Islands by Anne Midgette (1999)
"Billed as the hilliest island in the Cyclades, Kimolos is also the chalkiest: in
fact, its name means chalk, once one of this dry white island's main ..."
5. The Geology of the Country Around Fakenham, Wells, and Holt: (Explanation of by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1884)
"... and often to graduate almost into the chalkiest form of the clay itself In
other parts .... the chalk is disturbed, and the lines of flint dragged up ..."
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