bepaint
Americanverb (used with object)
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to cover or smear with paint.
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to color or tint.
a face bepainted with excessive makeup.
Etymology
Origin of bepaint
Example Sentences
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Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.
From Project Gutenberg
Bepaint, be-pānt′, v.t. to paint over: to colour.
From Project Gutenberg
Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
From Project Gutenberg
Stalin: Thou knowst the iron curtain masks my face Else might I blush, perchance bepaint my cheek, For meeting thee half way.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beautiful passage— Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night— was declaimed with the painful precision of a schoolgirl who has been taught to recite by some second-rate professor of elocution.
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