What is "limewash"

Usage examples of "limewash".

The hair had been smeared white by the limewash as the body thrashed in death.

The limewash was wearing thin, slates had slipped from the roofs and the window frames had been torn apart for firewood.

The walls had received a fresh coat of limewash and Bedouin rugs in opulent colours relieved the whiteness.

A man screamed as the barrel pinned him against the broken gun-carriage and as limewash flayed at his eyes.

Leaving the door ajar, amid the stench of mouldy limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces.

The crisis would soon pass perhaps, if a riot could be stayed and the natives give up their awful fictions of yellow handkerchiefs, poisoned sweetmeats, deadly limewash, and all such nonsense.

He had shaved his body, and the hair on his head was thickened with limewash so it stood up in great spikes from his head.

Gwenlian winning a footrace, slapping limewash on the wall, eating porridge, lifting her hands in ritual.

The palisaded complex of timber forts and chambers sprawling along the green ridge was badly in need of limewash and rethatching.

This little branchlet from the main thoroughfare faced east, and the light in the misty morning was charitable to the dirty buildings, hiding streaked and worn limewash, and dissipating the harsh light of the late summer sun so that cracks and holes could not cast such strong shadows.

They limewashed the wall after every execution - they were meticulous about it.

I remember all at once the nurses' rooms, the mattings of coir, a piece of text on the limewashed wall: My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

He had seen precious altar screens, too large to be moved, daubed with limewash in hope that the French would not realise there was treasure behind the white covering.

They were neatly laid out, thatched with yellow grass and painted dazzlingly white with burnt limewash.