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paintwork

/ ˈpeɪntˌwɜːk /

noun

  1. a surface, such as wood or a car body, that is painted
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He was at the window, burning off with a paraffin torch-lamp those parts of the old paintwork that were blistered and cracked.

Her topsides grew rusty, her once trim and clean paintwork took on a grimy tint.

Grief watched a large cockroach crawling over the greasy paintwork.

She has a deck-house for her sailors, and her paintwork is the same.

It all tastes of creosote; and then the damned stuff rubs off on the ship and ruins the paintwork.

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