calciminen.
/ˈkalsɪmɪn//ˈkalsɪmʌɪn/ A trade name given to a kind of white or coloured wash for walls.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of
oila1536
primera1650
wash1698
paint oil1727
flat tint1821
flat1823
flatting1823
distemper1837
kalsomine1840
oil filler1846
calcimine1864
tube-colour1881
Ripolin1899
gloss enamel1908
gloss paint1926
jelly paint1958
silicate paint-
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Hart).
1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 612 The wash or calcimine can be used for ordinary purposes.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 299/2 Should the ceilings and walls be calcimined or whitewashed, wash off old calcimine or whitewash.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan. 4/3 The old-gold calcimine..that covers the wall of the drawing-room.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xi. 134 Sharlee tapped the calcimine with her pointed finger-nails.
1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis 27 My heart twittered with joy under the glare of the calcimine.
1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait iii. 19 The faint smear on the cream calsomine.
Derivatives
ˈcalcimine v. to whitewash.
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1919 Chambers's Jrnl. May 327/1 The quarters were..somewhat garishly calcimined within.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 300 He was in a small room calsomined bright yellow.
ˈcalciˌminer n. a whitewasher, or wall-colourer.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > decorator > [noun] > whitewasher
pargeter1538
white-limer1611
whitewasher1729
calciminer1885
1885 Advance (Chicago) 4 June 361 Yesterday the calciminers invaded our dwelling.
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