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
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.
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
Note the clunch walls and mullioned windows, in one of which, designed in stained glass, are the armorial bearings of three former owners.
From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
The clunch probably from hence acquires its inflammable part, which on calcination becomes vitriolic acid.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
