chalkwhite

English

Adjective

chalkwhite (comparative more chalkwhite, superlative most chalkwhite)

1. Alternative form of chalk-white
   • 1968, Gyula Illyés, A tribute to Gyula Illyés, page 134:

     The meadow heaves in chalkwhite waves, all creatures run who can; the sudden flood drains from the landscape as sudden-swiftly as it had begun:

   • 1989, Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: The Abstract and the Actual, →ISBN, page 189:

     Those riding on the floats have been reduced to dwarfed mimes with chalkwhite skins, and the faces of the spectators have been transformed into the impermanent and inhuman fragility of Mardi Gras confetti.

   • 2015, Dan Clore, The Unspeakable and Others, →ISBN:

     The setting sun gave out no warmth on that chalkwhite desert, and the rising nightwind did nothing to cool the arid air.