Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art of drawing with black or colored chalks or pastels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of drawing with chalk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun art drawing with chalk

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Examples

  • On the same story are the plates of the PIRANESI calcography, the place where they are printed, and the warehouse where they are deposited.

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

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