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 Sweet Applers, according to Mrs. Nicholls, were "that clunch they might have been brought up in a wood."
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
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 Edward Conybeare
The whole, however, is of clunch, and, unfortunately, incomplete.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
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 Rev. Thomas Perkins
