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bepaint|bɪˈpeɪnt|
[f. be- 1 + paint v.]
trans. To paint over, cover, or smear with paint or paintings; to paint obtrusively; to colour, tinge.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce of Hen. VIII (1878) 282 The walls all bepainted..with places of holy Scripture. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 12 b, Black, yet bepainted with other colours. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 86 Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheeke. 1647R. Corbet Poems (1807) 14 Their colledges were new be-painted. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. vii, Buff-belts, complicated chains..have been bepainted in Modern Romance.
Hence beˈpainted ppl. a.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 901 Whose frothy mouth, bepainted all with red. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. vi. vi. 96 A bepainted, beribanded, insulting Playactor Majesty. |