calcimine
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of calcimine
First recorded in 1860–65; calci- + (kalso)mine
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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
All that happened down there was an occasional shower of calcimine.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
This plaster effect is less expensive than 40-cent burlap or ordinary white calcimine or paper.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
Paint is preferable to whitewash or calcimine for the walls, since it is less affected by steam, and can be more readily cleaned.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
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 William Dean Howells
Thrown across the end of the bed, the shawl she had danced in, blazing with gay color, cast the reflection of its carmines and yellows on the calcimined wall.
From The Bright Shawl by Joseph Hergesheimer
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 Kathleen Thompson Norris
All trim and paneling were painted a soft apple green, and walls and ceilings throughout were calcimined a deep cream color.
From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Frank Lieberman
The desks had been taken up and placed along the four walls, seats outward, tops forming a ledge against the calcimined stones, making a splendid place for those youngest children who had turned out!
From I Conquered by Harold Titus
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 William Dean Howells
"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 Montague Glass
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
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 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe
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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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