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Definition of Chalk dust
1. Noun. Dust resulting from writing with a piece of chalk. "Chalk dust covered the teacher's hands"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalk Dust
Literary usage of Chalk dust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. School Hygiene by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar (1913)
"The use of good erasers is important, and their selection should be left largely
to the teachers who have to use them. Protection against chalk dust. ..."
2. The Portland Survey: A Textbook on City School Administration Based on a by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1915)
"Much relief from chalk dust may be secured by setting and hinging in the chalk
trough narrow strips of one-eighth- inch wire mesh, so that the chalk dust ..."
3. Healthful schools by May Ayres Burgess, Jesse Feiring Williams, Thomas Denison Wood (1918)
"The alarming prevalence of tuberculosis among school children and teachers is
frequently charged to the excessive amounts of chalk dust which fill the air ..."
4. Walks in the City of Canton by John Henry Gray (1875)
"Thus, upon the article to be painted and gilded, there is formed, in lines of
chalk dust, a perfect representation of the design. The artist, now, takes in ..."
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