Meanings
plural calcimines · alternative calsomine
- countableuncountableA form of whitewash (inexpensive white paint) made from calcium carbonate, glue and water, used to coat wooden or plaster surfaces.
If a ceiling is peeling (from using the wrong paint over calcimine, probably; it's an old house), how do you remove all the paint down to the plaster all over the ceiling?
1983 August 6, Stephanie St. John, “Advice Needed”, in Gay Community News, page 18Synonyms: kalsomine
present singular third person calcimines · participle present calcimining · participle past calcimined · past calcimined · alternative calsomine
- To coat with this substance.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA form of whitewash (inexpensive white paint) made from calcium carbonate, glue and water, used to coat wooden or plaster surfaces.
Origin
- Latincalcis
- Englishcalcimine
Alteration of kalsomine, after Latin calcis, genitive of calx (“lime”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian варно мляко, бадана
- варно мляко (varno mljako)form of whitewash
- бадана (badana)form of whitewash
- баданосвам (badanosvam)coat with this substance
German Kalkfarbe, weißeln
- Kalkfarbeform of whitewash
- weißelncoat with this substance
- kalkencoat with this substance
- mit Kalkfarbe streichencoat with this substance
Cite this entry
calcimine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calcimine
“calcimine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calcimine. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “calcimine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calcimine.
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