french chalk

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   a soft white compact talc used to mark cloth or to remove grease stains

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Questions about french chalk

What does french chalk mean?

french chalk means "a soft white compact talc used to mark cloth or to remove grease stains".

Is french chalk a common word?

french chalk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.