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calcimine|ˈkælsɪmɪn, -maɪn|
[Later modification of kalsomine, after L. calci-, calx lime + inorganic -m- + -ine4.]
A trade name given to a kind of white or coloured wash for walls.
1864Webster cites Hart. 1885Spons' Mech. Own Bk. 612 The wash or calcimine can be used for ordinary purposes. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 299/2 Should the ceilings and walls be calcimined or whitewashed, wash off old calcimine or whitewash. 1903Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan. 4/3 The old-gold calcimine..that covers the wall of the drawing-room. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed xi. 134 Sharlee tapped the calcimine with her pointed finger-nails. 1930T. S. Eliot tr. St.-J. Perse's Anabasis 27 My heart twittered with joy under the glare of the calcimine. 1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait iii. 19 The faint smear on the cream calsomine.
Hence ˈcalcimine v., to whitewash; ˈcalciˌminer, a whitewasher, or wall-colourer.
1885Advance (Chicago) 4 June 361 Yesterday the calciminers invaded our dwelling. 1919Chambers's Jrnl. May 327/1 The quarters were..somewhat garishly calcimined within. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 300 He was in a small room calsomined bright yellow. |