Color Names

Limewash

Faded, chalky plaster, like old Mediterranean houses.

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Limewash is a pale grey.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Limewash

Whitewash

Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) or chalk (calcium carbonate, CaCO3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes used.

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limewash

Noun

  1. A mixture of slaked lime in water, used as a paint or a paintlike coating.

Verb

  1. To paint with limewash (slaked lime in water).
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