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housepaint

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Noun1.housepainthousepaint - paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house
house paint
paint, pigment - a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"


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They don't paint their houses enough because they regard "exterior housepaint in the stone way they regard makeup, as something that was probably developed using animal testing.
Paradise glossed: the problem with David Brooks by Confessore, Nicholas / Washington Monthly
Color constancy makes all the walls in a room look the same, if they were painted with a single housepaint.
Beauty and the brain by Zelinsky, Paul O. / The Horn Book Magazine
Ineffably, they seemed naughty, perhaps secretly funny-mean in the Martin Amis vein, with their instant-chic housepaint flesh tones and suave puns on abstraction, not to mention their angry-young-man titles, like Long Distance Run Around 24 Hours, 1991, More Fucking Values, 1991, and My Guernica, 1992.
Cheek to chic by Liebmann, Lisa / Artforum International
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