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[write-light.livejournal.com]

Wow how language varies!

[dis-tem-per]#2
noun
1.Art.a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
2.a painting executed by this method.
3.British. whitewash; calcimine.
verb (used with object)
4.to paint in distemper.
5.British. to whitewash a wall, cottage, etc.; calcimine.
Origin 1350-1400; Middle English distemperen (v.) (< Anglo-French distemprer) < Medieval Latin distemperāre to dissolve, dilute, equivalent to Latin dis- dis-1+ temperāre to blend, temper

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

hence, tempera paint we used in school?

Off to 1word1day lj community for research!

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

I was wondering why one needed to vaccinate their walls.