ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Covered, coated or marked with whitewash.
1770. Goldsm., Des. Vill., 227. The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, l[i]. A flaring new whitewashed mansion.
1882. Howells, in Longman’s Mag., I. 55–6. Leave others to … chase the flying tennis-ball on the whitewashed lawn.
2. fig. Freed from blame or taint; glossed over with a fair appearance: see prec. 2.
1797. D. Simpson, Plea Relig. (1808), 155. The white washed officer will … declare … that he trusts he is moved by the Holy Ghost.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, vii. A white-washed Jacobite; that is, one who having been long a nonjuror,… had lately qualified himself to act as a justice, by taking the oaths to government.
1859. Helps, Friends in C., Ser. II. II. x. 239. The whitewashed triumphs of despotism.
