bechalk

English

Etymology

be- +‎ chalk

Verb

bechalk (third-person singular simple present bechalks, present participle bechalking, simple past and past participle bechalked)

(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
- 1840, George Darley, Thomas À Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle, in Five Acts, page 51:
  Let fear give worse intelligence through your eyes, Make pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare as wild!
- 1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland:
  ...but there must be luxury in the glare of lustres to a man who has drudged at his desk by the light of a tallow candle, and how much handsomer must a floor appear to him when splendidly bechalked by a capital designer, than when besprinkled with a watering pot by a slipshod apprenticel
- 1885, The Mason College Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 132:
  Not only do blue or red bills in windows indicate committee rooms, but the politically-minded town-youth expresses his sympathies or antipathies on the' mouldering walls of ancient colleges, which are bechalked with exhortations to vote for Hall or Fyife.

单词	bechalk
释义	bechalk English Etymology be- +‎ chalk Verb bechalk (third-person singular simple present bechalks, present participle bechalking, simple past and past participle bechalked) (archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk. 1840, George Darley, Thomas À Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle, in Five Acts, page 51: Let fear give worse intelligence through your eyes, Make pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare as wild! 1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: ...but there must be luxury in the glare of lustres to a man who has drudged at his desk by the light of a tallow candle, and how much handsomer must a floor appear to him when splendidly bechalked by a capital designer, than when besprinkled with a watering pot by a slipshod apprenticel 1885, The Mason College Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 132: Not only do blue or red bills in windows indicate committee rooms, but the politically-minded town-youth expresses his sympathies or antipathies on the' mouldering walls of ancient colleges, which are bechalked with exhortations to vote for Hall or Fyife.
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