gloss paint

British  

noun

1. Also called: gloss.  a type of paint composed of pigments ground up in a varnish medium, which produces a hard, shiny, and usually durable finish

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Example Sentences

For woodwork, especially windowsills, a satin finish has long been fashionable, but Robinson points out that gloss paint will bounce even more light back into the room.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2020

The friends daubed their hands with blood-red gloss paint, walked over to the murals, and marked them with their prints.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2019

There are shelves packed with tins of gloss paint, a table covered in plastic containers of the same, and another long table inches deep in discarded pieces of drawing paper and pages torn from magazines.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

At first though they are literally stuck into gloss paint on canvas.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2012

He could smell the concrete floor, and the piss in the bucket, and the gloss paint on the walls, and hear the snores of the men along the row.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan