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The house before me was the ordinary moorland farm, with a more pretentious whitewashed wing added.La maison en face de moi était la ferme banale des pays de lande, mais il s'y accolait une annexe plus prétentieuse blanchie à la chaux.Buchan, John / Thirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John / Les Trente-Neuf MarchesLes Trente-Neuf MarchesBuchan, JohnThirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John
This oratory, which had been established in a large whitewashed room with four big windows, was bright and cheerful, and would, he thought, have a calming effect upon the excited imagination of his penitent.Cet oratoire, établi dans une grande pièce blanchie à la chaux, avec quatre immenses fenêtres, était d'une gaieté sur laquelle il comptait pour calmer l'imagination, surexcitée de sa pénitente.Zola, Emile / The Conquest of PlassansZola, Emile / La Conquete des PlassansLa Conquete des PlassansZola, EmileThe Conquest of PlassansZola, Emile
The yellow-curtained bed, the walnut chest of drawers, and the three straw-bottomed chairs seemed lost below that lofty ceiling with whitewashed joists.Le lit tendu de rideaux jaunes, la commode de noyer, les trois chaises de paille, se perdaient sous le haut plafond à solives blanchies.Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe MouretLa Faute de l'Abbe MouretZola, EmileAbbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile© BiblioBazaar, LLC
The Kyrie Eleisons rang quiveringly through that sort of whitewashed stable with flat ceiling and bedaubed beams.Les Kyrie, eleison coururent comme un frisson dans cette sorte d'étable, passée à la chaux, au plafond plat, dont on voyait les poutres badigeonnées.Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe MouretLa Faute de l'Abbe MouretZola, EmileAbbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile© BiblioBazaar, LLC
From outside, through the four large windows, whose panes were daubed with a coating of white lead, nothing could be seen but the bare whitewashed ceiling.Du dehors, par les quatre grandes fenêtres, dont les vitres inférieures étaient barbouillées de céruse, on ne voyait que le plafond nu, blanchi à la chaux.Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'OeuvreL'OeuvreZola, EmileHis MasterpieceZola, Emile
The whitewashed walls and the flooring of shiny, red tiles looked, however, extremely clean amidst this intentional bareness, which was similar to that of a monkish refectory.Mais les murs passés à la chaux, le carreau d’un rouge luisant, tout paraissait très propre, dans ce dénuement voulu de réfectoire monacal.Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - LourdesLes Trois Villes - LourdesZola, EmileThe Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile
We thought he might, at least, have had it whitewashed or tarred - had SOMETHING done to it to distinguish it from a bit of a wreck; but he could not see any fault in it.Il aurait pu au moins, grognâmes-nous, le faire badigeonner à la chaux ou au goudron, y ajouter quoi que ce fût susceptible de le distinguer d’une épave. Mais il se refusait à lui trouver un seul défaut.Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateauTrois hommes dans le bateauJerome, Jerome KlapkaThree Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka
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whitewash
noun
Singular | Plural | |
Common case | whitewash | whitewashes |
Possessive case | whitewash's | whitewashes' |
whitewash
verb
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Past | whitewashed |
Imperative | whitewash |
Present Participle (Participle I) | whitewashing |
Past Participle (Participle II) | whitewashed |
Present Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I whitewash | we whitewash |
you whitewash | you whitewash |
he/she/it whitewashes | they whitewash |
Present Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I am whitewashing | we are whitewashing |
you are whitewashing | you are whitewashing |
he/she/it is whitewashing | they are whitewashing |
Present Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I have whitewashed | we have whitewashed |
you have whitewashed | you have whitewashed |
he/she/it has whitewashed | they have whitewashed |
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I have been whitewashing | we have been whitewashing |
you have been whitewashing | you have been whitewashing |
he/she/it has been whitewashing | they have been whitewashing |
Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I whitewashed | we whitewashed |
you whitewashed | you whitewashed |
he/she/it whitewashed | they whitewashed |
Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I was whitewashing | we were whitewashing |
you were whitewashing | you were whitewashing |
he/she/it was whitewashing | they were whitewashing |
Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I had whitewashed | we had whitewashed |
you had whitewashed | you had whitewashed |
he/she/it had whitewashed | they had whitewashed |
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I had been whitewashing | we had been whitewashing |
you had been whitewashing | you had been whitewashing |
he/she/it had been whitewashing | they had been whitewashing |
Future Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will whitewash | we shall/will whitewash |
you will whitewash | you will whitewash |
he/she/it will whitewash | they will whitewash |
Future Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will be whitewashing | we shall/will be whitewashing |
you will be whitewashing | you will be whitewashing |
he/she/it will be whitewashing | they will be whitewashing |
Future Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will have whitewashed | we shall/will have whitewashed |
you will have whitewashed | you will have whitewashed |
he/she/it will have whitewashed | they will have whitewashed |
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will have been whitewashing | we shall/will have been whitewashing |
you will have been whitewashing | you will have been whitewashing |
he/she/it will have been whitewashing | they will have been whitewashing |
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I should/would whitewash | we should/would whitewash |
you would whitewash | you would whitewash |
he/she/it would whitewash | they would whitewash |
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I should/would be whitewashing | we should/would be whitewashing |
you would be whitewashing | you would be whitewashing |
he/she/it would be whitewashing | they would be whitewashing |
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I should/would have whitewashed | we should/would have whitewashed |
you would have whitewashed | you would have whitewashed |
he/she/it would have whitewashed | they would have whitewashed |
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I should/would have been whitewashing | we should/would have been whitewashing |
you would have been whitewashing | you would have been whitewashing |
he/she/it would have been whitewashing | they would have been whitewashing |
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I am whitewashed | we are whitewashed |
you are whitewashed | you are whitewashed |
he/she/it is whitewashed | they are whitewashed |
Present Continuous, Passive Voice | |
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I am being whitewashed | we are being whitewashed |
you are being whitewashed | you are being whitewashed |
he/she/it is being whitewashed | they are being whitewashed |
Present Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I have been whitewashed | we have been whitewashed |
you have been whitewashed | you have been whitewashed |
he/she/it has been whitewashed | they have been whitewashed |
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I was whitewashed | we were whitewashed |
you were whitewashed | you were whitewashed |
he/she/it was whitewashed | they were whitewashed |
Past Continuous, Passive Voice | |
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I was being whitewashed | we were being whitewashed |
you were being whitewashed | you were being whitewashed |
he/she/it was being whitewashed | they were being whitewashed |
Past Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I had been whitewashed | we had been whitewashed |
you had been whitewashed | you had been whitewashed |
he/she/it had been whitewashed | they had been whitewashed |
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I shall/will be whitewashed | we shall/will be whitewashed |
you will be whitewashed | you will be whitewashed |
he/she/it will be whitewashed | they will be whitewashed |
Future Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I shall/will have been whitewashed | we shall/will have been whitewashed |
you will have been whitewashed | you will have been whitewashed |
he/she/it will have been whitewashed | they will have been whitewashed |