whitewash
noun
whitewasher
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a word derived from
whitewash.
Example Sentences
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It sought to rebuild the ruins of any bricklayer, and to give any faded whitewasher a new white coat.
From A Short History of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
I confess to an unreasonable wish that God's Acre might have been spared by the industrious hand of the whitewasher, when the zeal for "cleaning up" seized upon the village fathers of San Gabriel.
From The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions by J. Smeaton Chase
She had been up in the new flat with the whitewasher.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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
