2. Verb. (transitive) To paint with limewash (slaked lime in water). ¹
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Definition of Limewash
1. a mixture of lime and water [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limewash
Literary usage of Limewash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Bacteriology by Edgar March Crookshank (1896)
"The same parts of the shed, stable, building, or other place shall be washed over
with limewash made of freshly burnt lime and water, and containing in ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1873)
"The absence of the provision for a coating of limewash requires a word of
explanation, as limewash is probably the most convenient available means of ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1873)
"... coating of limewash requires a word of explanation, as limewash is probably
the most convenient available means of ascertaining at a glance whether the ..."
4. The British Year-book of Agriculture and Agricultural Who's who (1908)
"The Diseases of Animals (Disinfection) Order of 1906, issued by the Board, states
that where disinfection by limewash, or a solution of carbolic acid and ..."
5. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"On this limewash, which covered the whole surface, the coloured details could be
... A good example of this limewash is the great sarcophagus 1365 already ..."
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