Calcimine

According to The Chambers Dictionary (13th edition, 2014), 'calcimine' is another name for Kalsomine, which is a registered trade mark.

I have to say that before I heard this question, I'd never heard of either.

This website has for sale a poster dating from 1910, advertising 'Hygienic Kalsomine', which is produced by a company based in Chicago and/or New York.

This blog, which appears to originate in Australia, goes into great detail about "Calcimine or Kalsomine", and what you have to do if you're renovating a house whose interior walls are covered in it. And it has an advert for Glossop Caravans! (or it does on my screen anyway).

Wikipedia gives both 'calcimine' and 'kalsomine' as alternative names for whitewash.

Wikipedia also describes distemper as "an early form of whitewash". As well as for painting walls etc., a form of distemper was also used in fine art.

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