paintwork

/ ˈpeɪntˌwɜːk /

noun

He was at the window, burning off with a paraffin torch-lamp those parts of the old paintwork that were blistered and cracked.

Her topsides grew rusty, her once trim and clean paintwork took on a grimy tint.

Grief watched a large cockroach crawling over the greasy paintwork.

She has a deck-house for her sailors, and her paintwork is the same.

It all tastes of creosote; and then the damned stuff rubs off on the ship and ruins the paintwork.

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