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WHITEWASHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coated with whitewash
Example:
miles of whitewashed fences
Classified under:
Similar:
painted (coated with paint)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb whitewash
Context examples:
The road topped a low hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My home, then, when I at last find a home,—is a cottage; a little room with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes, and a set of tea-things in delf.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is, as he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
