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Meaning of gault | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.

Equivalents

Français gault

Examples

“As he spoke, they turned off the main line of the rolling clays toward the foot of the chalk hills, and began to brush through short cuttings of blue gault and "green sand," so called by geologists, because its usual colours are bright brown, snow-white, and crimson.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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