They used calcimine to finish the old plaster walls. From LearnThat.org.
calcimine the walls. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The matte acrylic will look different and wear longer than the calcimine. From Wordnik.com. [House Paint] Reference
They often use calcimine - lime and color - which is beautiful but not always very practical. From Wordnik.com. [whitewash/sealer/primer] Reference
Not a subtle off-white softened by hints of brown or blue but the pure, pitiless gleam of calcimine. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
While he debated that, he made the mark for the last day on his calendar, and the point on his stub of pencil struck stone under the calcimine and snapped, leaving nothing behind it but a little coronet of frayed, dirty blond wood. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
The 741st was notified on 10 January that calcimine had become available. 52 The 743d Tank Battalion, which had seen some of the toughest fighting in the Bulge, was first able to apply coats of lime to its tanks of the line on 11 January 1945.53 The. From Wordnik.com. [Steel Victory]
Sharlee tapped the calcimine with her pointed fingernails. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
Paper will not stand steam and moisture, and calcimine is scarcely better. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
"We may have to calcimine the whole place in pale pink and let it go at that!". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
If he was tight-fisted wanst, he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen] Reference
This plaster effect is less expensive than 40-cent burlap or ordinary white calcimine or paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Have two or three small evergreen trees at rear, covered with white calcimine and diamond powder. From Wordnik.com. [The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays] Reference
Isla troller. in he umma, 4 and if you could be expecting twins? always calcimine up when playtimes over!!. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
For the kitchen, painted walls, which can be easily wiped off, and resist steam, are preferable to calcimine. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
A simple paper, costing 15 to 35 cents per roll, is best, or even plain calcimine, which many persons consider more healthful. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
But it is six instead of nine stories in height, is made of the cheapest sort of stucco, and covered with deep pink calcimine. From Wordnik.com. [Modern India] Reference
In the letter he said there was, no doubt, something in the claim if I could get the true contact with calcimine walls denoting a true fissure. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference
A car pulled up under the porte-cochere of the hotel, its headlights painted over with blue calcimine and a little man in black riding boots, gray riding breeches and a short, gray high-buttoned jacket stepped out and returned the salute of the two sentries as he opened the door, nodded to the secret policeman who sat at the concierge's desk and stepped into the elevator. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom The Bell Tolls]
The chalky white may be calcimine. From Wordnik.com. [House Paint] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "Sea Engines") Mr. GIBBARD: (Singing) We calcimine feathers/Kitchen lights on/Sea engines from Russia/sea birding below/When rocks out sea froth/I'll know Hawaii/My double-legged cliff/To the stilt of a million years. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbard And Farrar Take On Kerouac's 'Big Sur'] Reference
The necessity of good floors -- Material and cost of laying -- Ornamental flooring -- Waxed, varnished, and oiled floors -- Carpets, linoleum, and mats -- The stairway -- Rugs -- Oriental rugs -- Kitchen and upper floors -- Matting and cardoman cloth -- Uses of the decorator -- Wood in decoration -- Panels and plaster -- The beamed ceiling -- Paint, paper, and calcimine -- Shades and curtains -- Leaded panes and casements -- Storm windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Your body, he thought, is built of the old bricks of this city, and in it are tars and asphalt& and mortars unseen and limed with age, you breathe carbon monoxide from your lung&, and the color of your eyes is hysterical blue neon, and the color of your lips is red-fire neon, and the color of your face is white calcimine from stone buildings, with only here or there a touch of green or blue, the veins of your throat, your temples, your wrists, like the little garden squares in New York City. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
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