kalsomine
Americannoun
noun
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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
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 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
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)
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
The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
From Dear Enemy by Webster, Jean
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 Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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 Alger, Horatio
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)
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)
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)
His father went on kalsomining and took never a look at him more.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
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.
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
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
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