clunch

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His reassuringly expensive £25,000 shed has a wood-burning stove, dimmer switches, sofa bed, sheep’s wool insulation and is painted in muted shades called clunch, mouse’s back and old white.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2017

The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

There is much clunch stone used in the interior and this is in a good state of preservation, but any that has been used externally has decayed.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

No wonder the Sweet Apple folk were "clunch"!

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

The exterior is mostly flint; the interior, like that of so many churches in Cambridgeshire, is of "clunch," a hardened form of chalk, well adapted for building, and easily worked for carving.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward