- a variation of calcimine.
kalsomine
Americannoun
noun
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Can't you see Dulcie buying the bags of creamy kalsomine and the brushes and Janet packing up her pails and scrubbing things?
From Little Miss By-The-Day by Lucille Van Slyke
She feverishly grabbed a brush herself and slashed about delightedly in kalsomine.
From Little Miss By-The-Day by Lucille Van Slyke
Mr. Pyecroft sat silent on the foot of the bed for a space, grave but composed, gazing at a particular scale of the flaking kalsomine.
From No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott
So Elmville excitedly scraped kalsomine from the walls of the Palace Hotel with its Sunday best, and waited for the Voice to speak.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
These last had once been yellow-washed, age and dust having turned the kalsomine to an old-gold tint, reminding him of a ceiling belonging to a Venetian palace.
From Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith
I was pleased to be told at one of the hotels that they had kalsomined some of the rooms with material from one of the devil's paint-pots.
From Camping with President Roosevelt by John Burroughs
Each house had its ample front yard, and the new arrival could smell the box hedges and see, now and then, the whiteness of the kalsomined stones that bordered a driveway.
From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
It was a rectangular room without any other light than that which came in through the doorway, its walls kalsomined and with a wainscoting of white, glazed tiles.
From Luna Benamor by Isaac Goldberg
The caves are clean as if kalsomined from centuries and centuries of wash and wind.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
It was a high-handed piece of business, the bleached men and kalsomined women declared, as they passed from the humor of contemplating Seth Craddock's return to fretful chafing against the restraint of the present hour.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
He landed on the ranch and slowly looked things over and let on after a few days that he mebbe would be a cowboy on account of it taking him outdoors more than kalsomining would.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
His father went on kalsomining and took never a look at him more.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
It had never been papered, and the walls, with a little touching up, were ready for kalsomining.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
Before kalsomining a wall all cracks should be plastered over.
From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by F. L. (Fanny Lemira) Gillette
I tried a soap box and bu'st through, and I haven't had a worse shock since I stepped down the wrong side of the step-ladder last spring, when I was kalsomining for Mrs. Clinch.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
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