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whitewashed

adjectif C2
  1. Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
  2. Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
  3. Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite).
  4. A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.
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It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 6 · B2
And there weren’t any at all about the asylum, only a few poor weeny-teeny things out in front with little whitewashed cagey things about them.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 21 · C1
The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 35 · C1
The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1042 · C1

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