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calsomine

calsomine is the alternative form of calcimine.

Meaning of calcimine

Noun

calcimine (countable and uncountable, plural calcimines)

  1. A 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 18
    Synonyms:
    kalsomine

See all 2 meanings of calcimine

Forms of calsomine

Noun
pluralcalsomines
Verb
third-person singular presentcalsomines
present participlecalsomining
past participlecalsomined
pastcalsomined

Questions about calsomine

What is calsomine the alternative form of?
Calsomine is the alternative form of calcimine.

Words near calsomine in the dictionary

  1. calsequestrin
  2. calsequestrine
  3. calsequestrines
  4. calsequestrins
  5. Calshot
  6. calsomine
  7. calsomined
  8. calsomines
  9. calsomining
  10. calspectin
  11. calstabin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calsomine (page history and authors); calcimine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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