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单词 white-limed
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white-limedadj.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪtlʌɪmd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtlaɪmd/
Forms: late Middle English whyte-lymyd, late Middle English whyt-lymyd, 1500s white-limde, 1600s– white-limed.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: white-lime v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < white-lime v. + -ed suffix1.
1. That has been painted or rendered with white lime (white lime n. 1).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > painted with whitewash
whitedOE
white-limed1440
whitewashed1744
Snowcemmed1969
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 525 Whytlymyd [?a1475 Winch. Whyte lymyd], calcificatus.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Calcatus, pergetted or whyte lymed.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 97 Yee..shallow harted boies, Yee whitelimde [1623 white-limb'd] walles. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 7 As white-limedhouses [sic] exceed those which are only rough-cast.
1768 Woman of Honor III. xxviii. 24 The most wretched employ of scribbling in a white-limed garret, by the light of a farthing candle.
1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. x. 438 May our wives soon receive us in a white-limed chamber.
1883 Bristol Mercury 26 Nov. 6/1 Entering the white-limed passage of a house in an adjoining street we pass through to the back.
1948 Musical Q. 34 359 The great house of white-limed brick with its five stacks of chimneys.
2006 Irish Times (Nexis) 18 Mar. (Weekend section) 9 Narrow streets of white-limed houses.
2. Given or having an appearance of purity or rectitude. Cf. whitewashed adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance
paintedc1390
daubedc1400
cloakeda1500
fucate1531
fucated1535
coloured1537
flim-flam1577
tinsel1595
varnisheda1616
punkish1616
white-limeda1631
pargeted1645
tinselled1651
vizarded1663
lacquered1687
glossy1698
catchpenny1705
catch-shilling1808
tinselly1811
whitewashed1859
shoddy1882
veneered1884
hollowed-out1890
face-lifted1941
suede shoe1952
cosmetic1955
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 138 If we be not onely Dealbati Christiani, (as S. Augustine speaks) White-lim'd Christians, Christians on the out-side.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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