spray-paintingn.
The application of paint in the form of spray.
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society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > [noun] > painting > specific methods of applying paint
paint-spraying1920
spray-painting1921
rag-rolling1951
electropainting1964
electropaint1970
1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 125/2 The spray painting-machine is brought into operation where large unbroken surfaces have to be covered.]
1921 C. W. Terry Pract. Motor Body Building xliii. 310 Spray painting by compressed air is a system followed by many of the large modern motor car builders.
1934 Archit. Rev. 75 12/2 As a constructivist painter Moholy-Nagy was the first to..employ spray-painting to secure more exact chromatic effects.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 229 Flocking. This is a method of applying patterns or dots to fabric... The method is rather similar to spray-painting.
1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. c13/3 (advt.) French polishing and spray painting for piano refinishing.
Derivatives
spray-paint v. [as a back-formation] (transitive) to paint (a surface) by means of a spray; also as n., paint that is applied thus.
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society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > paint using other specific material or process
red-lead1871
Aspinall1889
spray-paint1928
artex1976
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > types of
whitewash?1584
rough stuff1841
enamel paint1865
tempera1883
surfacer1885
Bitumastic1889
plastic paint1925
spray-paint1928
emulsion paint1939
Snowcem1939
Day-Glo1944
Artex1952
latex1954
matt1977
1928 Daily Express 5 Oct. 2/1 A new base-material with which the car is covered, and which can be spray-painted to any finish desired by the customer.
1973 ‘E. McBain’ Hail to Chief iv. 51 The decrepit brick building..had been spray-painted with graffiti.
1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch x. 97 He spent the next hour buying..automobile spray-paint.
spray-painted adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > painted with spray-paint
spray-painted1975
1975 Listener 16 Oct. 491/3 Political posters and spray-painted slogans on every square inch of stone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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