Definition of "lime-wash" [lime-wash]

• A coating given with a solution of lime; whitewash. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The universal use of lime-wash gives a uniform tint to the monuments, blunts the lines of the architecture, effaces the ornamentation, and forbids you to read their age ...."
• "The lime-wash of the walls did not emit the white heat in which tho other tourists have basked or baked; the houses looked wet and chill, and if they had those flowered and fountained patios which people talk of they had taken them in out of the rain."
• "The lime-wash is the grand sanitary instrument in North Africa."