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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of kalsomine.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In the kitchen, which was kalsomined, shone the few scullery utensils.

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • 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

  • Women like the kalsomined widow, the masculine matron, the jaded

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • 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

  • "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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