Meanings
- A brand of architectural paint.
present singular third person Duluxes · participle present Duluxing · participle past Duluxed · past Duluxed
- 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 922 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 1837I 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
Brand name, derived from durable and luxury.
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