All 3 Uses of
whitewash
in
Jane Eyre
- You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.†
Chpt 27 *
- Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.†
Chpt 28
- 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.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)