depaint
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of depaint
1175–1225; Middle English depeinten < Old French depeint, past participle of depeindre < Latin dēpingere to depict
Example Sentences
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XLI Fair shepherdess, when as these rustic lines Comes to thy sight, weigh but with what affection Thy servile doth depaint his sad designs, Which to redress of thee he makes election.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote
Such ladies fair wou'd I depaint In roundelay or sonnet quaint.
From Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) by Melville, Lewis
Nor are my passions limned for outward hue, For that no colours can depaint my sorrows; Delia herself, and all the world may view Best in my face where cares have tilled deep furrows.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote
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