oops paint n. house paint sold at a discount because it is deemed of low quality or unsatisfactory color, has been returned by a previous customer, or was specially mixed but never sold. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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Spredge is a portmanteau word, a blend of sprayed and edge, and refers to decorative spraying of the edges of book pages, a trend in book design. These are historically similar to fore-edge paintings. This is part of a complete episode.
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Just so you know, I work at Home Depot and our policy is to change all Oops Paint to a totally different color then what it was originally 😉 I’ll take a nice smooth green and make it Pea Green! Hey, it’s policy:)