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clunch

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clunch. A generic name for harder types of chalk or soft limestones, varying in colour from white to greenish-grey. Clunch has occasionally been used as a building stone, but is more suitable for interior carved work and sculpture, for which purposes it was much used in England in the late Middle Ages. It is very light in weight and Alec Clifton-Taylor (The Pattern of English Building, 1972) writes that it ‘could be worked with such facility that it offered an almost irresistible temptation to the carvers to be over-elaborate and finicky’. An example of such virtuoso carving is Bishop Alcock's Chapel (1488–1500) in Ely Cathedral.

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Clunch

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Clunch

a lump; a heavy, unshapely mass.

Example: clunch of snow, 1888.

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