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paintless

  • a word derived from paint.
    paint
    noun
    a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.

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A shot made from atop that design flourish would technically count as being “from the logo,” even though this would be a paintless patch of parquet in every other arena.

From Slate Oct. 29, 2019

A March 28, 1966, Observer article described the house as: “a monstrous, paintless, rotting, rattling, sinister, sagging, gap-windowed … Realtor’s albatross.”

From Washington Times Mar. 6, 2016

I walk among the ancient sculptures that we leave fragmented and paintless even though we could try to restore the vivid polychromy they originally possessed.

From The New Yorker Jan. 11, 2016

They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald