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chalkface

noun

Etymology

From chalk + face. In the education sense, it is a play on coalface (“place where practical work is done”), after the chalk used on school blackboards, and is believed to have been coined by Ted Wragg for his Times Educational Supplement column.

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. formed as chalkface — “chalk + face”

Definitions

  1. A cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover

  2. The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA