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Meanings of eggshell in English

Portuguese
casca
Catalan
closca d'ou
Spanish
cáscara de huevo

The exterior covering of a bird's egg.

casca

Color.

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Examples for "shell"
Examples for "shell"
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For example, the core infrastructure and shell of the building can't change.
Reuters
2
These data provide a key benchmark for shell-model interactions far from stability.
Pubmed
3
The judge said it appeared Ban Ard was now a shell company.
The Irish Times
4
It will also certainly mean higher borrowing rates for already shell-shocked homeowners.
Reuters
5
He pointed in turn to the rude ornamentation in the shell clasp.
54-40 or Fight
Usage of eggshell in English
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There was no light and no laughter, only a motionless, eggshell-white case.
The Silver Pigs
2
The oil coating increased the eggshell gloss, but the roughness was unchanged.
Pubmed
3
I shall crush the Alamo, as my fingers would smash an eggshell.
The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad
4
Doyle knew that Jacky must be referring to the little eggshell mariners.
The Anubis Gates
5
Besides, it is not so much of an eggshell as you suppose.
Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
6
She would just be broke up like an eggshell with them breakers.
Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick
7
From then on, the eggshell site was one of its regular hangouts.
The sound of a wild snail eating
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Her skin was the same eggshell color as the wall behind her.
Death du Jour
9
The eggshell guy actively injures no one, but causes harm by omission.
First contact: or, it's later than you think
10
An abandoned nest still contained pieces of eggshell and puffs of down.
Watcher of the Dead
11
The pavement between them is broken in pieces like a cracked eggshell.
Allegiant
12
Did you conjure this out of a broken eggshell with a wand?
The Short Cut
13
The ceiling is eggshell white, meeting the walls in cream-colored crown molding.
Love, life and linguine
14
Her bald eggshell skull lay weightless on feather pillows in silk covers.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
15
The monitoring of eggshell quality is important mainly in terms of production economy.
Pubmed
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In summary, the present study explored objective reference metrics to measure eggshell translucency.
Pubmed
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