Both Uses of
whitewash
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Nuns with whitewashed faces, cool coifs and their rosaries going up and down, vindictive too for what they can't get.†
Chpt 13 *
- Bloom in a torn frockcoat stained with whitewash, dinged silk hat sideways on his head, a strip of stickingplaster across his nose, talks inaudibly.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)