"-wash" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1848, Joshua Fawcett, Church rides in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, Yorkshire, page 22",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1930, Francis Hamilton, Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept During the Survey of the District of Bhagalpur in 1810-1811",
          "text": "The natives dig clay from both places, in order to paint or rather redwash the walls of their huts.",
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          "ref": "2021, Roger H. Guichard, Middle East Tapestry, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 266",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2012, Guy Pearse, Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams, Black Inc.",
          "text": "In embracing and promoting their collaborations with WWF, these companies are being encouraged to greenwash their brands with the WWF logo.",
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          "ref": "2014, Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler, Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, NYU Press",
          "text": "One might argue that more is at stake than hiring multiracial, female, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) employees to rainbowwash corporate agendas.",
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          "ref": "2018, Cyril Ghosh, De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US, Springer, page 20",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "2016 June 21, Andrew Webster, Roy Masters, Steve Mascord, Phil Lutton, Brad Walter, with Barrett, Chris, Pengilly, Adam, Proszenko, Adrian, and Chammas, Michael, “State of Origin 2016: Who the experts are tipping in game two”, in The Sydney Morning Herald",
          "text": "A Maroonwash will be two-thirds complete on a fast track at Suncorp.",
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          "ref": "2017 December 28, “Myanmar's newsmakers of 2017”, in Frontier Myanmar",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018 July 11, Dan Liebke, “The Liebke Ratings: State of Origin 3”, in The Roar",
          "text": "To achieve a bluewash for the first time in a thousand years? Quite the incentive for Brad Fittler’s Baby Blues.",
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        "An overwhelming victory by a team or entity of the colour specified; often a clean sweep."
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