Definition of "distempering" []

• Present participle of distemper. (verb)

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• "He was in shirt-sleeves distempering the walls of the low, timbered sitting-room."
• "And those were they, who distempering themselues with these hote wines, haue brought in that sicknesse, which hath infected honester men then themselues."
• "There was little to do in the workshop except painting and distempering, which was being done by a couple of Balinese boys from the village, who were doing it very well."