All 7 Uses of
whitewash
in
Main Street
- The two stones by the path were painted yellow; the outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all; the last iron dog remaining in Gopher Prairie stood among whitewashed conch-shells upon the lawn.†
Chpt 15
- Here was no glaring new house with a proud phonograph, but a low whitewashed kitchen smelling of cream and cabbage.†
Chpt 15
- They were in a long whitewashed hall with a clumsy draw-curtain across the front.†
Chpt 17 *
- She fell with a jolt into a whitewashed hall and sat looking at two scared girls and a young man in wrinkled tights.†
Chpt 17
- They examined Del's makeup box, they sniffed the scent of grease-paint, every minute they ran out to peep through the hole in the curtain, they came back to inspect their wigs and costumes, they read on the whitewashed walls of the dressing-rooms the pencil inscriptions: "The Flora Flanders Comedy Company," and "This is a bum theater," and felt that they were companions of these vanished troupers.†
Chpt 18
- The rear of Ezra Stowbody's bank was whitewashed, and back of it was a concrete walk and a three-foot square of grass, but the window was barred, and behind the bars she saw Willis Woodford cramped over figures in pompous books.†
Chpt 29
- However inadequate the rest of the house, he had seen to it that the fundamental cellar should be large and clean, the square pillars whitewashed, and the bins for coal and potatoes and trunks convenient.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up (a wrong or error)