eggshell

  1. Noun.  The shell around an egg.
  2. Noun.  A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.
  3. Adjective.  Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell.
  4. Adjective.  Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell; as in ''eggshell porcelain.''.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.