The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
vb. (en-past of: calcimine)
Usage examples of "calcimined".
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.
It had a bulb up above, as though a luminous blister had formed on the calcimined surface of the ceiling.
Beyond the hoary willow tree lay the highway, a black slash in the calcimined won.