poster paint
- noun
- /ˈpoʊstər peɪnt/
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pintura de carteles
- They asked their father, who had to go into Albuquerque, to pick up a five-pound bag of instant papier-mâché and some poster paints.
Examples
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This is a Posca paint pen and it's basically poster paint in pen form and it's pretty opaque.
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So when she sees all the cute guys who like me, just as friends, Dad, she accidentally spills poster paint all over my model of the Taj Mahal.
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This is a Posca paint pen and it's basically poster paint in pen form and it's pretty opaque.
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Caroline heard the crunch of dried poster paint as she pressed against the goodbye paintings.
Fiction book (1996) -
Everyone can have a go at being an artist and can paint, draw, watercolour, acrylic, poster paint, and draw with pen, pencil, and charcoal.
Blog text (21) -
The children used bright poster paint to create colorful decorations for the art fair.
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She bought several tubes of poster paint for her school project on landscapes.
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For their craft day, the kids enjoyed mixing different colors of poster paint in large containers.
Synonyms
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1.0
A coloured liquid you put on surfaces to protect or decorate them
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3.3
A type of paint that uses water instead of oil
Paint made with water and glue that makes bright colors for posters
How Opaque
Surface Forms
Morphology
poster + paint
The compound 'poster paint' is compositionally built from 'poster' + 'paint' and denotes paint used for posters or art projects; a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a type of paint (often inexpensive, water-based, brightly colored) for such uses. This noun+noun compounding is a common and transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Poster paint comes from the idea of the words poster and paint, meaning paint made to cover paper 'posters' and signs so they looked bright and clear. That's why poster paint today means a water-based, brightly coloured paint often used in school art projects.