单词 | white-liming |
释义 | white-limingn. Now rare. The action of painting or rendering a wall, building, etc., with white lime (white lime n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > [noun] > painting > painting with whitewash white-liming1423 whiting1431 whitewashing1650 1423 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) x. 157 (MED) [A mason hired..to do the] bemfyllynge, herlynge, pargetyng, plastryng, and wasshyng (or whytlymyng). Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 525 Whytlymynge, calcificacio. 1547–8 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 275 To Lytchefeelde for whitelymynge of the same. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 304/1 Penicillus rectorius,..a washing or white liming brush. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Blanche.., whiting or whiteliming. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tectorian (tectorius), of or belonging to covering, pargetting, washing or whitelyming. 1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor II. 194 Repairs, &c. White-liming, £15. 9s. 6d. 1819 European Mag. & London Rev. Dec. 500/1 The tabernacle, and tracery work surrounding it, is spoiled by white liming. 1879 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Mar. 345/1 Disinfection of the house by washing, white-liming, and sulphur fumigation. 1914 J. C. Cox in J. S. Fletcher Memorials Yorks. Parish (1917) 200 The white-liming of the Norman quire of Peterborough in the twelfth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1423 |
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