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
For the kitchen, painted walls, which can be easily wiped off, and resist steam, are preferable to calcimine.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
If he was tight-fisted wanst, he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall.
From Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen by Finley Peter Dunne
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 Francis M. Walters
They, too, had been freshly cleaned and calcimined.
From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler
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
The tiled walls, the floor, the calcimined ceiling, the light globe, the enameled medicine chest, the outside of the bathtub, and even a little three-legged stool, were all the same shade.
From The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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
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
"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
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
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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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