kalsomine
Americannoun
noun
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But let me kalsomine you a little mental sketch to consider.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
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 Lucille Van Slyke
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 O. Henry
I know,' says I to Andy, 'that sometimes a woman seems to step out into the kalsomine light as the charge d'affaires of her man's political job.
From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening
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
In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
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 Alexander Irvine
And this magnificence of the tabernacle was in contrast with the simplicity of the lateral walls, simply kalsomined.
From Ramuntcho by Pierre Loti
I was pleased to be told at one of the hotels that they had kalsomined some of the rooms with material from one of the devil's paint-pots.
From Camping with President Roosevelt by John Burroughs
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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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
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
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 Harry Leon Wilson
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
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
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