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finish coat
  1. n. the final coat of paint [syn: finishing coat]

  2. the final coating of plaster applied to walls and ceilings; "we can't paint until they put on the finishing coat" [syn: finishing coat]

Usage examples of "finish coat".

The finish coat should be the last work of the day, when no more dust was being raised, and when the wind died down.

A pale hard-finish coat that did not carry the gold overtones of most varnishes let the warm red-oak tones shine through.

After the dust from the sweeping settled, I was going to put a finish coat on Durrik's chest.

Instead of working on finishing the chest, I smoothed the inside lids of the dowry chest until there was space enough for a finish coat there.

In the loft above the garage he found a substitute painter putting the finish coat on the doorframes.