whitewash
noun
whitewasher
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a word derived from
whitewash.
Example Sentences
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She had been up in the new flat with the whitewasher.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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
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
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
So far I've been intermittently a rotten ploughman, a fair fence-mender and a skillful whitewasher.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
