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French chalk

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French chalk
a compact variety of talc used to mark cloth or remove grease stains from materials

French chalk [¦french ′chȯk]
(materials)
Finely ground talc.


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We like to use a special French chalk paint, that has to be applied in a painstaking way.
French chalk in vintage red boxes was piled in a bookcase below books with handsome cracked bindings; when the French factory that produced it was closing, Mr.
I expect they'll soon start putting talcum powder on their pool cues (no more perfidious French chalk for them), and instead of wearing French letters they'll start using padded envelopes (so they can come in a Jiffy).
 
 
 
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