Coating
Paint
Paint noun - A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating.
Usage example: “artists use `
paint' and `pigment' interchangeably”
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It's never explained if it's gold plating, golden paint or beam coating, but considering that all the officers on board wear powdered wigs ...
Source: Bling-Bling-BANG! -
The most impressive example is probably when they do this to a truck, coating it in adhesive fabric to create a highly distinctive paint-job that they can simply burn away when not needed.
Source: Dressed in Layers -
Scarecrow Solution: When the Dukes are mistakenly declared dead, they fake a haunting by coating the General Lee with glow-in-the-dark paint and spook Boss Hogg into abandoning an attempt to frame them for a theft.
Source: Series / The Dukes of Hazzard
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