Crossword clues for calcimine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calcimine \Cal"ci*mine\, n. [L. calx, calcis, lime.] 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. [Also spelt kalsomine.]
Calcimine \Cal"ci*mine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcimined; p. pr. & vb. n. Calcimining.] To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls.
Wiktionary
n. A form of whitewash (inexpensive white paint) made from zinc oxide, glue and water, used to coat wooden or plaster surfaces. vb. To coat with this substance.
WordNet
n. a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings
v. cover with calcimine; "calcimine the walls"
Usage examples of "calcimine".
Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.
Another wounded man was carried into the middle of the hall through clouds of plaster and calcimine, but then, by order of the steel-helmeted Dr.
Opening the calcimine, he dipped in his fattest brush and mixed the white with the blue.
Ixidor opened the kobold blue and the calcimine and mixed up a whole new palette.
The shale radiated a soft calcimine glow, which was the only light, for the sky far above was black and moonless, deep but starless.
The calcimine grins of fleshless skulls, the poison-wet grins of serpents, the leer of Lugosi in Dracula's cape-all paled by comparison with this grotesque configuration of bloodless lips and muddy teeth.
Farther away, yellow-orange light and enormous strange shadows writhed, curled, leapt, squirmed, and shimmered across winter's calcimine mantle.
Beyond the hoary willow tree lay the highway, a black slash in the calcimined wonderland.
Beyond the hoary willow tree lay the highway, a black slash in the calcimined wonderland.
Beyond the hoary willow tree lay the highway, a black slash in the calcimined wonderland.
The women are rouged, calcimined, dyed, overdressed to the nth degree.
The same discolored, bilious-green calcimined walls, marred with dirty finger marks and pencil notations around the pay telephone.
The walls had once been calcimined a muddy green, now they were a discolored, mottled grey.
To have money in the pocket in the midst of white, neutral energy, to walk meaningless and unfecundated through the bright glitter of the calcimined streets, to think aloud in full solitude on the edge of madness, to be of a city, a great city, to be of the last moment of time in the greatest city in the world and feel no part of it, is to become oneself a city, a world of dead stone, of waste light, of unintelligible motion, of imponderables and incalculables, of the secret perfection of all that is minus.
The walls were roughly calcimined and the high, domed ceiling gave it a vast cathedral-like air.