NOUN
- a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings
VERB
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cover with calcimine
calcimine the walls
How To Use calcimine In A Sentence
- The room also in which the sick was cared for should be thoroughly disinfected and cleaned; in some instances the woodwork ought to be repainted and the walls repapered or calcimined. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
- As a growing child, he took to crayons and drawing on the white and turquoise blue calcimined adobe walls of his parents’ casita.
- All walls and ceilings of rooms in which food or drink is stored or prepared shall be painted, preferably in light color, or calcimined, or otherwise finished at frequent enough intervals to maintain the surface in a clean condition.
- calcimine the walls
- She scowled (still not entirely content with the shape of it), her calcimine eyes casually resting on the well-packed shelf behind the TV. BEHINDLINGS
- The tiled walls, the floor, the calcimined ceiling, the light globe, the enameled medicine chest, the outside of the bathtub, and even a little three-legged stool, were all the same shade. The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers
- Once on a time it had been regularly calcimined, twice a year, or three times, but it had been many years now since it had undergone this cleanly process. The Way of the Wind
- The matte acrylic will look different and wear longer than the calcimine. House Paint
- Calcimine (ordinary dry calcimine used for walls) may be mixed with gasoline and used to dye flowers.
- Your ceiling was calcimined a long time ago and no paint will adhere to it; the paint coming right off your roller indicates that it is calcimine underneath.