- a variation of calcimine.
kalsomine
Americannoun
noun
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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 Scott, Leroy
But let me kalsomine you a little mental sketch to consider.
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
She feverishly grabbed a brush herself and slashed about delightedly in kalsomine.
From Little Miss By-The-Day by Van Slyke, Lucille
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 Henry, O.
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 Betts, Lillian William
And this magnificence of the tabernacle was in contrast with the simplicity of the lateral walls, simply kalsomined.
From Ramuntcho by Loti, Pierre
There was more curiosity than fright in the women, as the most unsophisticated observer could have read in their kalsomined countenances.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
He continued my campaign of cleaning, and decorated the kalsomined walls with chromos that he bought at one penny apiece.
From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander
The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
From Dear Enemy by Webster, Jean
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 Goldberg, Isaac
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 Warner, Anne
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 Wilson, Harry Leon
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 Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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 Henry, O.
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
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