limewash

• “The interior of the roof is painted with limewash, so it reflects light very well.”

  The Guardian: Life in a Saxon hall

• “I scrubbed at it and revealed reddish marks like the indelible bloodstains of ghost stories, white limewash-like calcium and hundreds of tiny scratches which each held some hidden secret.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Wenlock Edge

• “Walls scraped of limewash by the Victorians have stayed scraped.”

  Restoring Church murals in England

• “Premature failures in surface treatments can be the result of improper matching with these factors, or simply poor preparation and/or application of the treatment, and can occur with any material, whether it is a "synthetic based paint", your good old-fashion limewash, or your "mineral" paints.”

  House Project Update for 01 February 2003

• “She wrote a fluent hand in Latin and French, but was equally at home daubing a wall in limewash with a hog's bristle brush.”

  The Falcons of Montabard

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

  The Falcons of Montabard

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

  Ulysses

• “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.”

  Sharpe's Skirmish

• “On absorbent surfaces like limewash, whitewash, cement, and bricks the activity of insecticide residues tends to be very short, irrespective of the active ingredient or formulation.”

  8. Pest control using insecticides

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

  Sharpe's Battle

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