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Talc   /tælk/   Listen
Talc

verb
(past talcked; past part. talcked; pres. part. talcking)
1.
Apply talcum powder to (one's body).



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"Talc" Quotes from Famous Books



... limbs and a sense of nausea. The table against which her hand rested was covered with red baize, no doubt to keep the stains of mutton from penetrating to the wood. On the mahogany sideboard reposed a cruet-stand and a green dish of very red apples. A bamboo-framed talc screen painted with white and yellow marguerites stood before a fireplace filled with pampas-grass dyed red. The chairs were of red morocco, the curtains a brownish-red, the walls green, and on them hung a set of Landseer prints. The peculiar ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... Extra Fin.—(Lubin, Paris.)—The bottles contains 35 grammes of a liquid consisting of water, holding in suspension about equal parts of zinc oxide, magnesic carbonate, and powdered talc, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various

... that it always retains a slight stickiness, and so gives a good joint when wrapped around wires, etc. Many substances so used are not sticky and let moisture in through the joints. Where a smooth surface is required, it is readily obtained by dusting on a little talc. It can also be given a coat of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 • Various

... with my party to the water-holes found by Mr. Roper; on approaching them, we crossed an extensive box-flat, near that part of the river where it is split into collateral chains of holes. Talc-schiste cropped out at the latter part of the journey; its strata were perpendicular, and their direction from north-west to south-east; its character was the same as that of Moreton Bay and New England; numerous veins of ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... awaited me outside. I learned that, while we'd been out after luncheon, my sister and the Vannecks had come, but that Aline had had a mishap. She'd been wearing a motor-mask veil, according to her custom, in order to protect her complexion. The talc front over her face had been damaged in the morning's storm, and somehow her eyes were injured. I should have received the news sooner had I gone to the desk instead of following Mrs. ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson



Words linked to "Talc" :   powder, steatite, soapstone, French chalk, soap-rock, soaprock, rensselaerite, talcum, mineral



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