whitewash
noun
whitewasher
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a word derived from
whitewash.
Example Sentences
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To do this he had done work as a whitewasher and labourer, never working less than one whole night a week in addition to his regular occupation, until his mate was well again.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
I'm a cleaner an' a whitewasher by profession, an' somebody gib me dat name.
From Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
And he painted like a whitewasher, mixing his colours as a hodman mixes his mortar, and managing to make the clearest and brightest of them quite muddy.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
My son Hezekiah's a painter; yes, that's the purfession he's at; An artist, I mean,—course he ain't a whitewasher or nothin' like that.
From Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
So far I've been intermittently a rotten ploughman, a fair fence-mender and a skillful whitewasher.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
