washed

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The floor was of light yellow polished wood; the walls were white-washed, and covered with pencil marks.

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  1. That has been subjected to washing, in any sense.
  2. Of the nature of a “wash”: applied on the exchanges to a mere transfer by a broker of the stock or commodity which one principal had instructed him to sell to another customer who had given instructions to purchase a similar quantity of the same stock or commodity. [Stock-exchange slang.] Washed or fictitious sales are positively forbidden, and will render the parties concerned liable to suspension or expulsion from the Produce Exchange. New York Produce Exchange Report, 1888-9, p. 265.
  3. In zoology, overlaid, as a surface or a groundcolor, with a wash or light tint or color: as, a fox's black pelt washed with silver. See wash, n., 10 .

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