calcimine
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of calcimine
First recorded in 1860–65; calci- + (kalso)mine
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He was spattered here and there with paint and calcimine, and there were bits of wallpaper clinging to his hair and whiskers, for he was rather an untidy man.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
All that happened down there was an occasional shower of calcimine.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
“He’s always getting paint and calcimine all over his clothes,” said Bill.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
"Goldstein," he said hoarsely, "is it assault that some one paints you from head to foot with calcimine?"
From Elkan Lubliner, American by Glass, Montague
But it is six instead of nine stories in height, is made of the cheapest sort of stucco, and covered with deep pink calcimine.
From Modern India by Curtis, William Eleroy
Painted walls which can also be washed are most desirable; if calcimined, the tinting must be renewed each year.
From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)
No matter how pleasing the tone, plain calcimined walls will probably pall after a while, but by that time the home owner will know whether paper or paint is the better treatment.
From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Lieberman, Frank
The walls of the rooms must be calcimined, painted, frescoed and papered; they must be dyed in the mortar, finished with leather, with tiles, with tapestry and with solid wood panels.
From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
The living room into which Billy was conducted must have been freshly calcimined, for it seemed so surprisingly, glaringly white.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
They were not people of fashion, as we readily perceived, but kindly-looking mercantile folk, and ladies painted as white as newly calcimined house walls; and all gravely polite.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
A recent job of calcimining had transformed the room from a dirty grayish, white to a soft shade of pink; the old-fashioned furniture had been "done over," and glowed dully in the fading light.
From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
"Out from here, you dirty loafer you!" she shrieked, and grabbed a calcimining brush from one of the many paintpots that bestrewed the hallway.
From Elkan Lubliner, American by Glass, Montague
Having faith in Major Bagley's word, the house was cleaned from top to bottom, much painting and calcimining having been done.
From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack
Finishing touches installation stained glass windows drum octagon removal scaffolding exterior interior edifice interior calcimining dome drum octagon tuckpointing cleaning floodlighting entire structure completed synchronizing closing weeks glorious twelvemonth annals Holy Faith.
From Dawn of a New Day by Shoghi Effendi
Smell for smell, the interior of that hotel may have harbored a worse one than the odor of henhouse which pervaded ours, I hope from the materials for calcimining the rooms on the patio.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
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