NOUN
- a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings
VERB
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cover with calcimine
calcimine the walls
How To Use calcimine In A Sentence
- You can do a search on calcimine paint removal and find lots of different tips.
- The most common variety of Portland cement is a mixture of calcimined calcareous and argillaceous materials, forming a complex composition consisting of tri-calcium illuminate, tetra-calcium alumna ferrite, decaliun sillicate and tetra calcium ortho-silicate.
- We painted around the edges with a dark colored varnish and the walls were calcimined.
- These products were first developed for painting directly over calcimine and wall paper, although this is no longer recommended because it may lead to difficulties at a later date.
- The house where a consumptive has lived should be disinfected, repapered or calcimined, and thoroughly cleaned before it is again occupied. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
- Prime the walls with a calcimine covering primer or oil based primer and paint the surface.
- They often use calcimine - lime and color - which is beautiful but not always very practical. Whitewash/sealer/primer
- Company records show that sometime before 1903 Fountain hotel maintenance personnel used the pinkish mud to ‘paint,’ or calcimine, many interior walls of the hotel.
- Four rooms at one end of the hospital have been cut off from the hospital proper by a heavy partition that has been put up at the end of the long corridor, and these rooms are now being calcimined and painted. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
- All original paints used on plaster on the building's interior, including and especially the decorative painting, were calcimines - water-based, glue-bound, calcium carbonate paints.