whitewash
noun
whitewasher
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a word derived from
whitewash.
Example Sentences
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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
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
At the suggestion of his friend Mr. Johnson, he bought a whitewash brush, a peck of lime, a couple of pails, and a hand-cart, and began work as a whitewasher.
From The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
She had been up in the new flat with the whitewasher.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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
