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
Of course calcimine is the simplest and cheapest style of decoration, and recommends itself to the anti-germ disciple because it can be renewed annually at slight expense.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
The paint and calcimine tint suited me, of course.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
Painted walls which can also be washed are most desirable; if calcimined, the tinting must be renewed each year.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
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
They, too, had been freshly cleaned and calcimined.
From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler
Once on a time it had been regularly calcimined, twice a year, or three times, but it had been many years now since it had undergone this cleanly process.
From The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris
High-born ladies with two-inch feet stumble by, their calcimined faces streaked with tears and fright.
From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little
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
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
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
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