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  • noun paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house

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Examples

  • She freehanded outlines of hillocks, trees, and -- in my case -- bamboo, and we colored in the lines with flat housepaint.

    galleon trade edition 2008

  • Carlos painted sesame street characters in scenes from German history in thick layers of housepaint he bought in bulk from a hardware store.

    Cursed by the Wall 2008

  • Carlos painted sesame street characters in scenes from German history in thick layers of housepaint he bought in bulk from a hardware store.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Samuel Schimek gives found items - gnomes, owls - a coat of housepaint and translates them into repeating digital images.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Kristen Browning-Blas 2010

  • Samuel Schimek gives found items - gnomes, owls - a coat of housepaint and translates them into repeating digital images.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Kristen Browning-Blas 2010

  • Methylene chloride will remove that kind of paint -- I used it to strip seven layers of housepaint plus two layers of automotive from my first car, a VW bug.

    Ask MetaFilter sarahj 2009

  • You could even leave your door natural wood if you choose a housepaint color and a color for the inside of the panels next to the natural wood door that coordinate.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • The book, antique future, was published by the artcenter college of design .... 25 "x23" digital/acrylic/housepaint on paper. "

    Boing Boing: November 9, 2003 - November 15, 2003 Archives 2003

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