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spray-painting
(stress variable)
[spray n.2 or v.4]
The application of paint in the form of spray.
[1902: see painting-machine s.v. painting vbl. n. 6.] 1921C. W. Terry Practical Motor Body Building xliii. 310 Spray painting by compressed air is a system followed by many of the large modern motor car builders. 1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 12/2 As a constructivist painter Moholy-Nagy was the first to..employ spray-painting to secure more exact chromatic effects. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 229 Flocking. This is a method of applying patterns or dots to fabric... The method is rather similar to spray-painting. 1978N.Y. Times 30 Mar. c13/3 (Advt.), French polishing and spray painting for piano refinishing.
Hence (as a back-formation) spray-paint v. trans., to paint (a surface) by means of a spray; also as n., paint that is applied thus; spray-painted ppl. a.
1928Daily 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. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch x. 97 He spent the next hour buying..automobile spray-paint. 1975Listener 16 Oct. 491/3 Political posters and spray-painted slogans on every square inch of stone. |