What does the word whitewash mean?
Usage examples for whitewash
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" We'll hire Eradicate Sampson to stand guard with a bucket of whitewash. – Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout or, The Speediest Car on the Road by Victor Appleton
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Why, he hadn't been in the house half an hour when he offered to help me whitewash. – Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
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" Oh, I am a little better, thank you," replied I. " Well, I am glad of it, because I want to whitewash your room; for if the coloured man stops to do it to- morrow, he'll be for charging us another quarter of a dollar." – Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)