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 Betts, Lillian William
That girl with the kalsomine on her face made remarks about folks butting in.
From Jean of the Lazy A by Bower, B. M.
She feverishly grabbed a brush herself and slashed about delightedly in kalsomine.
From Little Miss By-The-Day by Van Slyke, Lucille
But let me kalsomine you a little mental sketch to consider.
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
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 Van Slyke, Lucille
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
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)
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 Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
It was kalsomined white, had a courtyard of its own, and back of it was a little fruit and flower garden.
From The Title Market by Soper, J. H. Gardner
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
There are detailed descriptions from the pens of those who feel an unctuous joy in painting the lily, kalsomining the calla, and adding perfumes to the violet, the rose, and the orange.
From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Sanborn, Kate
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
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 Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)
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
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