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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
kalsomine .
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Examples
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After this the whole premises should be fumigated with sulphur or formaldehyde, and then the stable left open for a week to be aired and dried, after which all surfaces should be freshly and thickly kalsomined.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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It was a high-handed piece of business, the bleached men and kalsomined women declared, as they passed from the humor of contemplating Seth
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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A sunny room with western exposure, kalsomined in pale warm gray, the floor covered with cream - colored matting, windows fitted with white Holland shades -- a combination restful to the eye -- and furnished with hard-wood framed, cane-bottomed chairs.
How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Lillian B. Lansdown
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There was more curiosity than fright in the women, as the most unsophisticated observer could have read in their kalsomined countenances.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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Long and narrow, it looked like a kalsomined cave illumined by a lightning bug in a bottle when he turned the electric switch.
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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Dolores pushed the table to the middle of the room, went over to the wall, pulled away a scrap of kalsomined canvas about a yard square, and revealed a gap crammed with ribbons, cords, lace edging and other objects of passementerie.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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Women like the kalsomined widow, the masculine matron, the jaded
The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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He continued my campaign of cleaning, and decorated the kalsomined walls with chromos that he bought at one penny apiece.
From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910
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"Cymbeline" began -- "Cymbeline" carefully edited, censored and kalsomined by the selective committee, Mrs. Reverend David Dishup and Miss Tryphosa
Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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