All 4 Uses of
whitewash
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- He led us down a passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each side.†
Chpt 6
- A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the three bedrooms opened.†
Chpt 8 *
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)