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/tʃɑk dəst/ Listen

Chalk dust

noun

Dust resulting from writing with a piece of chalk.

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... numbered high in the thousands. Under such conditions, no life-loving human could have failed to produce the last degree of utility out of a spade. The continual dropping of shells in the ruins and the unending fountains of chalk dust and dirt left little for the imagination, but one officer told me that it reminded him of living in a room where some one was eternally ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... cloudless, summer weather, not very clear, for there was a good deal of heat haze and of mist in the nights and early mornings. It was hot yet brisk during the days. The roads were thick in dust. Clouds and streamers of chalk dust floated and rolled over all the roads leading to the front, till men and beasts ...

— The Old Front Line • John Masefield