Whitewash
Whitewash — a bright coat that covers and renews — often touches seeking to reinstate yourself with friends by shedding offensive habits and company, with good health and repute, though a young woman's plans to deceive. The dream may ask where you're brightening over what's soiled, and whether the fresh coat is real renewal or a cover-up.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for whitewash, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are whitewashing, foretells that you will seek to reinstate yourself with friends by ridding yourself of offensive habits and companions.
For a young woman, this dream is significant of well-laid plans to deceive others and gain back her lover who has been estranged by her insinuating bearing toward him.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of having your house or place of business whitewashed, is an excellent omen, as it promises you good health, and a good name and repute among your friends: if a woman dreams of whitewashing her house, or any part of it, it foretells that she will have a son who will be distinguished, or that some act of hers will attract public attention.