whitewash

• "Why, you'll go and ruin yourself--Queen's Bench, whitewash, and all the rest of it! —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
• On many of the outer walls of upper stories the whitewash has been stopped within a foot of the coping, the unwhitened portion of the walls at the top having the effect of a frieze. —  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
• It is therefore clear that at the time when the whitewash was applied, which was either at the time or subsequent to the habitation of the rooms, there was no floor to the third-story room nor roof to the second story. —  The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
• She should suffer just as much discomfort on the score of a cheaply furnished (and by "cheap" here I do not mean inexpensive--whitewash and deal intelligently used may create a beautiful room), overcrowded and over-ornamented study What is the meaning of the room which is your school centre for the time being? —  A Girl's Student Days and After
• Herrmannstadt is the seat of the Protestant Bishop of Transylvania, and there is a fine old church, which, however, has suffered severely in the process of restoration The interior of the church is in that unhappy condition which bespeaks the churchwarden's period--whitewash plastered over everything, obliterating lights and shades and rare carvings beneath a glare of uncouth cleanliness. —  Round About the Carpathians

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