daubing
- noun
- /ˈdɔːbɪŋ/
:
embarrado
- His daubing of the clay was uneven, but it captured the shape he wanted.
Examples
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After some daubing with a thick brush, the surface was ready for painting.
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The subtle script, the dance of the brush strokes, gives way to crude commonplaces, pilings, mixings, and daubings of points, squares, and broad inorganic masses.
Academic text (2000) -
Know this building, but also know this daubing, that is to say, the ones who honor wicked things.
Academic text (2004) -
You know, just with a small brush, just kind of do a little daubing at the outer corner for something colourful and bright and have fun with it really.
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Israel also tried to end intifada-related demonstrations, wall daubings, and communique distributions.
Academic text (1991) -
The artist's daubing of plaster on the wall gave it a rustic look.
Synonyms
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A way of covering surfaces with a wet paste to make them smooth or decorative
To cover something with mud or with a soft wall paste, for example on drywall
Antonyms
How Rough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Daubing comes from daub, which means 'to smear' or cover something roughly and is easy to remember if you think of the small word 'dab' for a quick smear. So daubing is the rough, often messy act of putting plaster, mud, or a similar material onto a wall.