Kalsomining

Word KALSOMINING
Character 11
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Definitions and meanings of "Kalsomining"

What do we mean by kalsomining?

To calcimine.

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The word "kalsomining" in example sentences

Before kalsomining a wall all cracks should be plastered over. ❋ Mrs. F.L. Gillette (N/A)

Great activity prevails in this household; I am moved to brush up my dear old home a little, so I have bought some kalsomine, and every minute which can be spared from getting in the hay Jim is kalsomining. ❋ Unknown (1914)

They followed one of the least handsome streets of the city for more than a mile, turned into a cross street, and drew up before a small frame house, from the front of which a sign, painted in white upon a black background, announced to the reading public, in letters inclined to each other at various angles, that whitewashing and kalsomining were ❋ Unknown (1895)

[FOOTNOTE 57: kalsomining -- applying a whitewash to ceiling or walls] ❋ O. Henry (1886)

The bartender rounded the bar in a casual way, looking up at the ceiling as though he was pondering some intricate problem of kalsomining [57], and then fell upon Curly so suddenly that the roadster had no excuses ready. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

The artistic temperament is too high-strung to view such deviations from the natural laws of the art of kalsomining. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

When they trembled on the verge of taking his apartment, he pointed out a spot in the kalsomining of the parlor ceiling, and gratuitously said, Now such a thing as that he should not agree to put in shape unless they took the apartment for a term of years. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

"He landed on the ranch and slowly looked things over and let on after a few days that he mebbe would be a cowboy on account of it taking him outdoors more than kalsomining would. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

"His father went on kalsomining and took never a look at him more. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

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