All 3 Uses of
whitewash
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- …Gomez had decided to take him there himself in order to expedite things and, with Andres holding tight onto the seat ahead of him, they roared, bumping down the shell-pocked mountain road between the double row of big trees, the headlight of the motorcycle showing their whitewashed bases and the places on the trunks where the whitewash and the bark had been chipped and torn by shell fragments and bullets during the fighting along this road in the first summer of the movement.†
Chpt 40
- …Gomez had decided to take him there himself in order to expedite things and, with Andres holding tight onto the seat ahead of him, they roared, bumping down the shell-pocked mountain road between the double row of big trees, the headlight of the motorcycle showing their whitewashed bases and the places on the trunks where the whitewash and the bark had been chipped and torn by shell fragments and bullets during the fighting along this road in the first summer of the movement.†
Chpt 40
- In front of him was one of the whitewashed stones that marked the edge of the road.†
Chpt 43 *
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)