limewash

The interior of the roof is painted with limewash, so it reflects light very well.

Life in a Saxon hall 2011

I scrubbed at it and revealed reddish marks like the indelible bloodstains of ghost stories, white limewash-like calcium and hundreds of tiny scratches which each held some hidden secret.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

Walls scraped of limewash by the Victorians have stayed scraped.

Restoring Church murals in England 2008

Premature failures in surface treatments can be the result of improper matching with these factors, or simply poor preparation and/or application of the treatment, and can occur with any material, whether it is a "synthetic based paint", your good old-fashion limewash, or your "mineral" paints.

House Project Update for 01 February 2003 2003

She wrote a fluent hand in Latin and French, but was equally at home daubing a wall in limewash with a hog's bristle brush.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

The walls had received a fresh coat of limewash and Bedouin rugs in opulent colours relieved the whiteness.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

Leaving the door ajar, amid the stench of mouldy limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces.

Ulysses 2003

He had seen precious altar screens, too large to be moved, daubed with limewash in hope that the French would not realise there was treasure behind the white covering.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

He had seen precious altar screens, too large to be moved, daubed with limewash in hope that the French would not realise there was treasure behind the white covering.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

On absorbent surfaces like limewash, whitewash, cement, and bricks the activity of insecticide residues tends to be very short, irrespective of the active ingredient or formulation.

8. Pest control using insecticides 1996