Crossword-Solution: CALCIMINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calcimine | n. | A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. |
| Calcimine | v. t. | To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “CALCIMINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring | 1 answer |
| Whitewash | 40 answers |
| whiten | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CALCIMINE (5)
Miss Brundon's office, rigorous as the corridor of a hospital, had a table and uncompromising wooden chairs on a rectangle of bluish-pink carpet; a glowing, round stove held a place on a square of gleaming, embossed zinc, while the remaining surfaces were scrubbed oak flooring and white calcimine.
PANELS AND PLASTER This plaster effect is less expensive than 40-cent burlap or ordinary white calcimine or paper.
PAINT, PAPER, AND CALCIMINE For the kitchen, painted walls, which can be easily wiped off, and resist steam, are preferable to calcimine.
Also they've dug up a blond transformation somewhere, which covers up all the brown hair, and they've fitted her out with long jet earrings, and touched up her eyebrows--and, believe me, with all that yellow hair down over her eyes, and the rouged lips, she looks just like she'd strayed in from the White Light district! You wouldn't think just a little store hair and face calcimine could make such a change in anybody.
Make a strong solution of glue sizing; wash the calcimine or whitewash from the ceiling where it is weak; paint with a coat of the size; and when it is almost dry, spread the muslin on like ceiling paper having first dipped it in the size.