Definition of "eggshell"

eggshell

/ˈɛɡʃɛl/

noun
plural eggshells
1. The shell around an egg.
  Quotations
  Like Egge-ſhels mou'd upon their Surges, crack'd / As eaſily ’gainſt our Rockes.
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i], page 380
2. (color) A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.
adjective
comparative more eggshell, superlative most eggshell
1. (color) Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell.
2. Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.
3. Very matt, having a low reflexivity, like an eggshell.