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Definition of Stone-wash
1. Verb. Wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance. "They stone-wash the cape "; "Stonewash blue jeans"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone-wash
Literary usage of Stone-wash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates: Embracing a Long Life on Shipboard by Joseph Bates (1868)
"... Squadron— Church Service on Board a King's Ship—Port Mahon—Subterranean
Passage —Holy-Stone—Wash Days—Threatened Punishment—Storm—New Station. ..."
2. Text Book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying by Charles Frederick Arden-Close (1905)
"Wash with citric acid (1 in 80) to eat gum out of stone, wash with water, and
draw in new work as before. ..."
3. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"The subsequent removal of the stone-wash confirmed the accuracy of Mr. ...
It should be added that on some of the statues the stone-wash had begun to go to ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"Co., Stone (Wash.) Hurty, Davidson (Minn.) Inch, 574 237 370 65 173 261 1090 320
881 248 24 658 62 271 430 157 131 1207 632 219 1187 541 798 999 1117 534 ..."
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