All 3 Uses of
whitewash
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- And there weren't any at all about the asylum, only a few poor weeny-teeny things out in front with little whitewashed cagey things about them.†
Chpt 2
- The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.†
Chpt 3 *
- The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)