calcimine , also: kalsomine

Is there a way of removing the old calcimine before painting again?

Now and then there would be a gentle shower of calcimine.

The same holds true if glue size was used over the calcimine, another common practice years ago.

All that happened down there was an occasional shower of calcimine.

The only shock you feel is "an occasional shower of calcimine."

Calcimine was widely used many years ago, but has not been around for at least 30 or 40 years.

A few older houses may have walls painted with calcimine or casein paint.

However, before you can wash off the calcimine, you must remove all the paint applied over it.

"You are disposing of your interests in the Calcimine Company at a sacrifice."

Apparently it was originally the practice of builders to paint the plaster ceilings with calcimine.

If you suspect that the paint on your walls is calcimine or casein, try washing it with soap and water.

Then scrub the exposed plaster with hot water and detergent to get rid of any residual calcimine.

Flakes of calcimine from the shaken ceiling shower down on the deafened occupants.

One living room wall and bedroom wall have what one contractor describes as a "calcimine condition."

Calcimine remains sensitive to water and will soften when wet, so when latex paints are used, peeling is a common problem.

(Calcimine, consisting of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white pigment and water, is used to wash plastered surfaces.)

The plaster ceilings and soffits were apparently painted with calcimine years ago, and as a result, the paint applied since then continually peels off.

When painted over with latex paint, the water in the latex paint has the same effect: it softens and loosens the calcimine.

A bomb crashed down close by, shook loose from the ceiling a snowfall of calcimine, brought the woman to her feet shrieking, and her husband with her.

She knew that for the captain and his teenaged boy, home had better be here, in this calcimine firedog at the wormhole's hearth, because it was many long, cold weeks away otherwise.

In the United States, distemper brushes were known as calcimine, kalsomine or calsomine brushes, each term being the U.S. variant of whitewash.

Whitewash, or calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, or lime paint is a low-cost type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and chalk (whiting).

Renzo stumbled to the middle of the bridge, cradling a wounded arm as he gazed at the calcimine claw of Terok Nor hanging in space before them on the crackling screen.

While he debated that, he made the mark for the last day on his calendar, and the point on his stub of pencil struck stone under the calcimine and snapped, leaving nothing behind it but a little coronet of frayed, dirty blond wood.

The road was empty of other traffic; the moonlight cast arborescent shadows on the snow on the east side of the highway and caused the distant mountain peaks to glow as though they had been coated with a mixture of calcimine and phosphorus.

We calcimine fathers here below!