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.
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.
That girl with the kalsomine on her face made remarks about folks butting in.
From Jean of the Lazy A by Bower, B. M.
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
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
The room, carefully kalsomined, was made gay by the sudden light of a flame of branches in the tall and wide chimney ornamented with a festoon of white calico.
From Ramuntcho by Loti, Pierre
In their unevenness the white kalsomined walls displayed their primitive workmanship.
From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell
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
"It's a lot more sanitary to have the walls kalsomined, I know that," said James in a superior tone.
From Ethel Morton at Rose House by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
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.
His father went on kalsomining and took never a look at him more.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
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)
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
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
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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