"chalky" meaning in English

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      "form": "chalkier",
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        "Consisting of or containing chalk."
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          "roman": "kréjdovyj",
          "sense": "consisting of or containing chalk",
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          "text": "a chalky texture",
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          "text": "Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.",
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          "ref": "2019, FiveThirtyEight:",
          "text": "It’s funny — even though the bracket has been so chalky, several of the top seeds have looked suspect at times.",
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        "(US, sports, chiefly basketball) Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games."
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      "word": "chalky paper"
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