calcimine

• calsomine

Alteration of kalsomine, after Latin calcis, genitive of calx (“lime”).

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.
   • 1983 August 6, Stephanie St. John, “Advice Needed”, in Gay Community News, page 18:

     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?

• kalsomine

calcimine (third-person singular simple present calcimines, present participle calcimining, simple past and past participle calcimined)

1. To coat with this substance.

• calciminer