French chalk
noun
: a soft white granular variety of steatite used especially for drawing lines on cloth and for removing grease in dry cleaning
Word History
First Known Use
1674, in the meaning defined above
- petit battement
- petit bourgeois
- petit cape
- petit four
- petit fours
- petit jury
- petit larcenies
- petit larceny
- petit mal
- petit mal epilepsy
- petit mal seizure
- petit point
- petit sergeanty
- petit theft
- petit treason
- petit-maître
- Petit-Nègre
- Petitcodiac
- petite
- petite bourgeoisie
- petite marmite
- petite noblesse
- petite sirah
- petite syrah
- petiteness