bechalked

Adjective

bechalked (comparative more bechalked, superlative most bechalked)

1. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.
   • In short, it was the Freshman recitation room in old D—, and our earliest recollections of college life still cluster fresh around those black walls, all bechalked with geometric cones and pyramids, and mysterious symbols of algebraic lore.1857, Wisconsin Journal of Education - Volumes 1-2, page 337
   • At the back — here get a good grip on your nervous centers — stands a double geared piece of infamy, bespattered with filth, becut with obscenity, bechalked with fiendish coarseness, and bepenciled with lewdness from the journals of the infernal regions.1892, School Education - Volume 11, page 205
2. Chalk-covered or chalky.
   • Go into the wealthiest and gayest quarters of the town and you shall see maidens of fifteen tripping along in scores with their young cheeks bechalked and bedizened in a manner that almost puts to the shame a coryphée of the grand opera.1866, The Round Table - Volume 4, page 40
   • He could merely urge his heavy bulk onward toward the fast fleeing train; and dashed up the platform, overcoat streaming from his arm, coat-tails flying, hat crushed down upon his head, his fat, bechalked legs rumbling heavily after him.1968, Grace Livingston Hill, The Best Man, page 58