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/ˈɛgʃˌɛl/ Listen

noun

eggshell n.

The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

(Zoöl.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.

adjective

eggshell adj.

Of a pale, yellowish-white color; as, an eggshell ceiling and light green walls.

(Architecture) Having a smooth but not glossy texture like that of a hen's egg; as, a latex paint giving an eggshell finish. Also referred to as matte glaze or non-lustrous glaze.

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Etymology of 'Eggshell'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eggshell" Quotes from Famous Books

... the twelve-inch armoured conning-tower cracked like an eggshell; the barbette collapsed like the crust of a loaf, and the big 9.2 gun lurched backwards and lay with its muzzle staring helplessly at the clouds. The deck crumpled up as though it had been burnt parchment, and the ammunition for the 9.2 and the forward ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

... one sturdy badmash cracked like an eggshell under the butt of the bold tar's musket; a second received the terrible hook square in the teeth; and a third, no other than Parmiter himself, was caught round the neck at the next lunge of the hook, and flung, with a mighty heave, full into the ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... hermit, "and we are fitted out for longish voyages and rough weather. Besides, it is not so much of an eggshell as you suppose. I made it myself, and took care that it should be fit for the work required of it. The wood of which it is made, although light, is very tough, and it is lined with a skin of strong canvas which is fixed to the planks with tar. This makes the craft watertight as well as strong. ...

— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne

... mass of snow!" I exclaimed, "There must be ten million tons of it! And what an irresistible power! Peter's house must have been crushed like an eggshell!" ...

— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp

... the gentlest and most melodious accents, and pronounced by the prettiest, gentlest, and most innocent-looking little person that a fairy wand ever drew from an enchanted eggshell. She had come up noiselessly, and they became aware of a slender, dainty figure, charmingly timid blue eyes, and white transparent brows. No ingenue among the naiads, a truant from her river spring, could have been shyer, whiter, more ingenuous than this young ...

— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac

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