Dulux

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proper noun

A brand of architectural paint.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A brand of architectural paint.
verbDulux (third-person singular simple present Duluxes, present participle Duluxing, simple past and past participle Duluxed)

present singular third person Duluxes · participle present Duluxing · participle past Duluxed · past Duluxed

  1. transitiveTo paint or daub with Dulux paint.

    “It might have been a nice fireplace once,” Caroline drummed her nails on the Duluxed mantel, “only you can't tell. It's a very small room.”

    1986, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant, volume 30, page 92
    2 more examples

    I tell him that I felt guilty – not because I had broken the law but because I had used a can of paint to get revenge and the boy had to live with his name Duluxed across the road.

    2004, Adbusters, volume 12, page 1837

    I wondered what conceivable meaning there could be in the Duluxing of a perfectly lively fallow tree, but from the way environmental art is shaping up at present, I could make a rough guess.

    2010, Richard Mabey, A Brush With Nature

Origin

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APA

Dulux. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dulux

MLA

“Dulux.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dulux. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dulux,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dulux.

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