| 单词 | face painting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasface painting face painting n. (a) portrait painting (now rare); (b) the action or process of applying decorative paint (or in early use, cosmetics) to the face.In quot. 1597 concrete (in plural): face paints, cosmetics. ΚΠ 1597 H. Clapham Theol. Axioms sig. c.iiv A box of face paintings. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix v. i. 159 The common accursed hellish art of face-painting, which the Fathers..much condemne. 1706 B. Buckeridge Ess. Eng. School in J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 399 He was..a Landskip Painter..till he..fell to Face-Painting. 1862 W. M. Rossetti in Fraser's Mag. July 73 Whose picture..shows a higher character of face-painting. 1924 Amer. Anthropologist 26 390 For ceremonial face-painting, red, black, and white were commonly used. 2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 28 Feb. (What's On section) 2/5 The third Sunday Street Artshow with..live music, wine tasting,..children's art classes and face painting. < as lemmas |
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