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wash Wash WASH Wash. The Wash English Etymology en whitewash. Second sense popularised by en greenwash. Suffix To coat with, or a coating of, paint of the colour specified. en 1848 Joshua Fawcett Church rides in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, Yorkshire 22 At present, successive coats of yellowwash fill up the rich decoration of this doorway, so that its beauty is not brought out to the eye of the unpractised visitor. en 1930 Francis Hamilton Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept During the Survey of the District of Bhagalpur in 1810-1811 The natives dig clay from both places, in order to paint or rather redwash the walls of their huts. en 2021 Roger H. Guichard Middle East Tapestry Wipf and Stock Publishers 9781725298347 266 The only touch of color was provided by a small copy Leonardo's Last Supper and three crudely painted windows, executed in a kind of bluewash and orangewash, over the altar. To focus on, or an act of focussing on, a supposedly positive aspect of an organisation in order to distract from or downplay negative perceptions. en 2004 John M. Talbot Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781461637127 210 They are likely to remain small and relatively marginalized niche markets, even as some of their rhetoric is appropriated by the TNCs for use as marketing gimmicks and bluewash. en 2012 Guy Pearse Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams Black Inc. 9781921870767 In embracing and promoting their collaborations with WWF, these companies are being encouraged to greenwash their brands with the WWF logo. en 2014 Bruce Burgett; Glenn Hendler Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition NYU Press 9780814707975 One might argue that more is at stake than hiring multiracial, female, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) employees to rainbowwash corporate agendas. en 2018 Cyril Ghosh De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US Springer 9783319788401 20 Spade suggests here, in the same breath, both that the Obama administration uses its "declarations of gay rights" to pinkwash and that its support for gay rights is "used as a rationale for domestic and international regimes of racialized violence and warfare." en informal An overwhelming victory by a team or entity of the colour specified; often a clean sweep. en Andrew Webster; Roy Masters; Steve Mascord; Phil Lutton; Brad Walter Barrett, Chris; Pengilly, Adam; Proszenko, Adrian; Chammas, Michael State of Origin 2016: Who the experts are tipping in game two https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/state-of-origin-2016-who-the-experts-are-tipping-in-game-two-20160621-gpnv9h.html The Sydney Morning Herald 21 June 2016 A Maroonwash will be two-thirds complete on a fast track at Suncorp. https://web.archive.org/web/20260205072336/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/state-of-origin-2016-who-the-experts-are-tipping-in-game-two-20160621-gpnv9h.html 5 February 2026 en Myanmar's newsmakers of 2017 https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-newsmakers-of-2017 Frontier Myanmar 28 December 2017 So many were delighted when he was unceremoniously turfed from office in the 2015 redwash, with his USDP losing every single seat in the region. https://web.archive.org/web/20241126154919/https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-newsmakers-of-2017/ 26 November 2024 en Dan Liebke The Liebke Ratings: State of Origin 3 https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/07/12/the-liebke-ratings-state-of-origin-3/ The Roar 11 July 2018 To achieve a bluewash for the first time in a thousand years? Quite the incentive for Brad Fittler’s Baby Blues. https://web.archive.org/web/20250124043507/https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/07/12/the-liebke-ratings-state-of-origin-3/ 24 January 2025 Derived terms en Anagrams en ahsw Haws Shaw Wahs haws shaw shwa wahs