What is "talc"

Usage examples of "talc".

The museum comprehended an infinite number of medals, coins, urns, utensils, seals, cameos, intaglios, precious stones, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, spars, fossils, metals, minerals, ore, earths, sands, salts, bitumens, sulphurs, ambergrise, talcs, mirre, testacea, corals, sponges, echini, echenites, asteri, trochi, crustatia, stellae marine, fishes, birds, eggs and nests, vipers, serpents, quadrupeds, insects, human calculi, anatomical preparations, seeds, gums, roots, dried plants, pictures, drawings, and mathematical instruments.

He is comforted by the talc smell of her housedresses mixed with the sunbaked smell of her skin, the perfumy smell of her party dresses.

Embroidered waistcoats were worn over underwaistcoats, all topped by white leaded faces and high wigs loaded down with Venetian talc.

At night your wellcreamed braceletted hands will wear fortythreebutton gloves newpowdered with talc and having delicately scented fingertips.

Other galaxies are Just like ours/ teeming with multitudinous sapient species/ talcing turns uplirting each other as a sacred duty/ then turning their attention toward the duties ot transcendence .

I slept six hours in Room 31 at the Harbour Hotel with traps at the door and the window and then got up and showered and took the stuff out of the canvas case and tried on the wet suit again and tested the mask, putting talc on the fins and taping the safety marker to black it out: they might just as well have painted a bull's-eye on the back of the suit, bang on the tenth vertebra.

I had shaved and showered three hours earlier, and applied talc to my prickly heat.

He'd have to lose twenty pounds before he'd win admiring glances at the poolside, but in his carefully tailored light-grey mohair and handmade brogues, with his manicured hands, and face talced like a freshly-baked cottage-loaf, I saw in him a possible ladies' man.

Each time we take our alternate form, we are talcing a chance by running free.

For hours I'd been fighting against talcing her job, and now that something was in the way which might stop me I knew I wouldn't let anything stop me.

So most of the farmers hereabouts have moved into town, talcing over houses which were deserted by those who chose to move away from the neighborhood altogether.

Hendley kept close to the wall of the apartment building on his left, talcing advantage of every concealing shadow.

Ethridge supplies them with the talcum powder, which is not GI talc.