kalsomine
Americannoun
noun
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But let me kalsomine you a little mental sketch to consider.
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
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 Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
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
I'll drive right up in my chariot of flame; I was going out, and it's waiting while I kalsomine my face.
From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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 Smith, Francis Hopkinson
In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.
From The Quest by Goldberg, Isaac
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
And this magnificence of the tabernacle was in contrast with the simplicity of the lateral walls, simply kalsomined.
From Ramuntcho by Loti, Pierre
A sunny room with western exposure, kalsomined in pale warm gray, the floor covered with cream- colored matting, windows fitted with white Holland shades—a combination restful to the eye—and furnished with hard-wood framed, cane-bottomed chairs.
From How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration by Lansdown, Lillian B.
The caves are clean as if kalsomined from centuries and centuries of wash and wind.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
It had never been papered, and the walls, with a little touching up, were ready for kalsomining.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard
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 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
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
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.
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