calcimine
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of calcimine
First recorded in 1860–65; calci- + (kalso)mine
Example Sentences
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“He’s always getting paint and calcimine all over his clothes,” said Bill.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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
Paper will not stand steam and moisture, and calcimine is scarcely better.
From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)
For the kitchen, painted walls, which can be easily wiped off, and resist steam, are preferable to calcimine.
From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)
The house where a consumptive has lived should be disinfected, repapered or calcimined, and thoroughly cleaned before it is again occupied.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
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, too, had been freshly cleaned and calcimined.
From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway
Miss Saunders came in, and met Mama and Grandma; we were having the kitchen calcimined, the place was pretty well upset, I remember.
From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
I'll resign my seat in the Senate and go back to chain-carrying for the county surveyor the day I can't make this state buy a picture calcimined by a grandson of Lucien Briscoe.
From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.
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
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
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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