smoothing-down

Updated: May 2, 2025

To go back to the papering: I bought some tools that is to say, a paste-brush, and a smoothing-down brush, and a long pair of scissors, for I had a suspicion that my painters would be at their fall farming presently, in which case Westbury, who I was satisfied could do anything, had agreed to beautify our walls.

Albert Bigelow Paine - Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm