bechalked

English

Adjective

bechalked (comparative more bechalked, superlative most bechalked)

1. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.
   • 1857, Wisconsin Journal of Education - Volumes 1-2, page 337:

     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.

   • 1892, School Education - Volume 11, page 205:

     At the back — here get a good grip on your nervous centers — stands a double geared piece of infamy, bespattered with filth, becut with obscenity, bechalked with fiendish coarseness, and bepenciled with lewdness from the journals of the infernal regions.

   • 1997, James H. Carson, Doris Castro, James H. Carson's California, 1847-1853, page 19:

     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.

2. Chalk-covered or chalky.
   • 1866, The Round Table - Volume 4, page 40:

     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.

   • 1968, Grace Livingston Hill, The Best Man, page 58:

     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.

   • 1972, Children's Book Review Service - Volumes 1-3, page 80:

     This noodle-soup weak "creation" portrays immature adults (a mother who callapses when her son has his first cup of coffee, a bechalked female teacher who couldn't count her way out or a wet paper bag, an eccentric, slightly-left-of-Hungarian professor nobody would want to know) and has an insipid "cute" plot (a search for the egg-laying Noch Ness monster, nicknamed Nessie").

Verb

bechalked

1. simple past and past participle of bechalk
   • 1866, George Augustus Sala, William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher:

     The picture represents him in sore disgrace, mounted on the stool of repentance, crowned with the asinine tiara of tribulation, holding in one hand the virgal rod of anguish, and in the other the slate which has brought him to this evil estate : a slate much bechalked with libellous representations of his dame.