- a variation of calcimine.
kalsomine
Americannoun
noun
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The present owner is willing to kalsomine the bedrooms and halls each spring, but the tenants object because it makes a lot of work.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
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
That girl with the kalsomine on her face made remarks about folks butting in.
From Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower
Just try to make bark or leaves on a tree that has to be painted with a heavy kalsomine brush.
From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
They did allow him to kalsomine the ceilings and hang the wall paper; but they painted the floors and lower reaches of woodwork themselves.
From Just Patty by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
He also whitewashed the kitchen, and kalsomined the other rooms, so that the interior of the cottage was sweet and clean.
From Randy of the River The Adventures of a Young Deckhand by Horatio Alger
In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
In their unevenness the white kalsomined walls displayed their primitive workmanship.
From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum
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
The room, carefully kalsomined, was made gay by the sudden light of a flame of branches in the tall and wide chimney ornamented with a festoon of white calico.
From Ramuntcho by Pierre Loti
The kalsomining of the walls was peeled off, and the dry boards of the cots occupied two-thirds of the space.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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
Painter's Manual.—A complete practical guide to house and sign painting, graining, varnishing, polishing, kalsomining, papering, lettering, staining, gilding, glazing, silvering, analysis of colors, harmony, contrast, &c.
From The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various
The artistic temperament is too high-strung to view such deviations from the natural laws of the art of kalsomining.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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
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