WHITEWASHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whitewashed mean? 

• WHITEWASHED (adjective)
  The adjective WHITEWASHED has 1 sense:

1. coated with whitewash

  Familiarity information: WHITEWASHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITEWASHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coated with whitewash

Context example:

miles of whitewashed fences

Similar:

painted (coated with paint)

 Context examples 

You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The carpet prevents any possibility of a trap-door, and the ceiling is of the ordinary whitewashed kind.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Through this crevice a small room was visible, whitewashed and clean but very bare of furniture.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He led us down a passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“This is the 'Mouton d'Or,'” said Aylward, as they pulled up their horses at a whitewashed straggling hostel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which stood high upon a grassy headland, we looked down upon the whole sinister semi-circle of Mounts Bay, that old death trap of sailing vessels, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs on which innumerable seamen have met their end.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the three bedrooms opened.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)