Talcous

In the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani, Karla Black has made the kind of work that whets the appetite for the Turner prize, the award she is tipped to win this December: boulder-size bundles of sugar paper chalked over in shades of peach and pistachio and bedecked with talcous mounds of plaster powder; sheets of paper sprayed with fake tan; and balsa wood painted with eyeshadow. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar. ❋ De Witt C. Peters (N/A)

What I saw of this country between the second and eighth degrees of latitude, and the sixty-sixth and seventy-first degrees of longitude, is entirely composed of granite, and of a gneiss passing into micaceous and talcous slate. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Cape Codera, the great mass of the Silla of Galipano, and the land between Guayra and Caracas, the table-land of Buenavista, the islands of the lake of Valencia, the mountains between Guigne, Maria Magdalena and the Cerro do Chacao are composed of gneiss; * yet amidst this soil of gneiss, inclosed mica-slate re-appears, often talcous in the Valle de ❋ Unknown (1851)

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore, where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

The whole to the very top consists of the same talcous clay, which is universal all over the island, and of a talcous stone, which, when exposed to the sun and air, crumbles in pieces, and dissolves into lamellae. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

The soil here was found to be quite like to what had elsewhere been found, and the rocks and stones consisted of granite, moor-stone, and brown talcous clay-stone. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Is the island of Oruba (in which nuggets of native gold of considerable size have been found) primitive?); yet amidst this soil of gneiss, inclosed mica-slate re-appears, often talcous in the Valle de Caurimare, and in the ancient Provincia de Los Mariches; at Cabo ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)