Both Uses of
whitewash
in
Babbitt
- Babbitt's party politely edged through them and into the whitewashed room, at the front of which was a dais with a red-plush throne and a pine altar painted watery blue, as used nightly by the Grand Masters and Supreme Potentates of innumerable lodges.†
Chpt 14
- For half an hour Babbitt sat looking at a calendar and a clock on a whitewashed wall.†
Chpt 22 *
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)