🅲🅰🅻🅲🅸🅼🅸🅽🅴 a white or tinted wash for walls, ceilings, etc. More about calcimine •First recorded in 1860-65; variant of kalsomine. •From the Latin calx, meaning "lime or limestone." EXAMPLES OF CALCIMINE •The old farmhouse still had traces of calcimine on its ceilings, giving the rooms a soft, chalky appearance.