Bechalked

Quick meaning: Bechalked is an adjective meaning Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

Meaning

Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

More Meanings

1. Chalk-covered or chalky.
2. simple past and past participle of bechalk

Example Sentences

The little paper did not die, but “slept," and no great time elapsed before its bechalked shingle was again swinging in the gentle zephyrs which played at times around the hills of Yerba Buena.

Go into the wealthiest and gayest quarters of the town and you shall see maidens of fifteen tripping along in scores with their young cheeks bechalked and bedizened in a manner that almost puts to the shame a coryphée of the grand opera.

He could merely urge his heavy bulk onward toward the fast fleeing train; and dashed up the platform, overcoat streaming from his arm, coat-tails flying, hat crushed down upon his head, his fat, bechalked legs rumbling heavily after him.

In short, it was the Freshman recitation room in old D—, and our earliest recollections of college life still cluster fresh around those black walls, all bechalked with geometric cones and pyramids, and mysterious symbols of algebraic lore.

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