Dulux

English

Etymology

Brand name, derived from durable and luxury.

Proper noun

Dulux

1. A brand of architectural paint.

Derived terms

• Dulux dog

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.