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Calcimine

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of whitewash (inexpensive white paint) made from calcium carbonate, glue and water, used to coat wooden or plaster surfaces. countable, uncountable

    "If a ceiling is peeling (from using the wrong paint over calcimine, probably; it's an old house), how do you remove all the paint down to the plaster all over the ceiling?"

  2. 2
    a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To coat with this substance.
  2. 2
    cover with calcimine wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Alteration of kalsomine, after Latin calcis, genitive of calx (“lime”).

Etymology 2

Alteration of kalsomine, after Latin calcis, genitive of calx (“lime”).

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