chalkboard

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No price is listed on the chalkboard, although new static-cling signs on the windows advertise a latte and "Perfect Oatmeal" for $3.95.

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  1. noun A smooth hard panel, usually green or black, for writing on with chalk; a blackboard.

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  • But it's a real feeling and you learn to respect it anyway because you're out there in the hot and the guy who drew the pretty pictures on the chalkboard isn't. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • In Military History the entire chalkboard was already covered in questions written out in Captain Infal's sloping hand. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
  • Last night Glenn Beck made crude drawings on a chalkboard, and tonight he and Bill O'Reilly used Barbie dolls to explain ACORN. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Chalk Media created the Mobile chalkboard, an application suite that enables the creation and deployment of Pushcasts, which carry video and audio files to BlackBerry devices. expected revenue for the fourth quarter of 2008 to be approximately 25\% lower than its third-quarter 2008 revenue of US$1. 585 billion. —  SD Times Latest News
  • (The chalkboard is attached to the inside of your skull, its horrid cacaphony amplified with loudspeakers and by echoes.) —  LinuxChix aggregator
 

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