Dulux

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Etymology

Brand name, derived from durable and luxury.

Proper noun

Dulux

  1. A brand of architectural paint.

Derived terms

Verb

Dulux (third-person singular simple present Duluxes, present participle Duluxing, simple past and past participle Duluxed)

  1. (transitive) To paint or daub with Dulux paint.
    • 1986, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant, volume 30, page 92:
      “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.”
    • 2004, Adbusters, volume 12, page 1837:
      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.
    • 2010, Richard Mabey, A Brush With Nature:
      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.