All 4 Uses of
whitewash
in
Great Expectations
- Then, we went into the hut, where there was a smell of tobacco and whitewash, and a bright fire, and a lamp, and a stand of muskets, and a drum, and a low wooden bedstead, like an overgrown mangle without the machinery, capable of holding about a dozen soldiers all at once.†
p. 39.1
- Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps.†
p. 69.2
- Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine.†
p. 69.2
- LOT 1 was marked in whitewashed knock-knee letters on the brew house; LOT 2 on that part of the main building which had been so long shut up.†
p. 504.8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(whitewash as in: whitewash the fence) a liquid used to paint something in a see-through white color; or the act of painting something with such a liquid
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(2)
(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up, hide, or minimize (a wrong or error)
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Whitewash, especially in the past, can also refer to painting something white.