clunch
Example Sentences
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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
It is built of clunch, a local stone that lasts well for interior use, but perishes somewhat when exposed to the weather.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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
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 E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
