paintedadj.
/ˈpeɪntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)əd/ 1.
a. That has been coloured; to which paint has been applied; ornamented or decorated with designs or pictures executed in paint or colours.In early use applied to fabrics, either painted or embroidered with colour. See also painted cloth n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [adjective] > ornamented with paintings
painteda1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) : Prov. (Bodl. 959) vii. 16 I haue arayed with cordis my litle bed & sprad with peyntid [L. pictis] tapitis of egipt.
a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) 212 (MED) They lete make..A swithe feire graue wyrche, And lete ley þer vppon A new feire peynted ston.
1419 Wills of Bury St. Edmunds f. 155, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Peinten An eld matras, & a peyntyd materas.
c1496 Sermo pro Episcopo Puerorum (de Worde) sig. biij Euyll fasshened garmentes & deuyllysshe shoon and slyppers of frensmen, powches and paynted gyrdels of spaynardes.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxiii. f. xxxiij Paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwardes.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. iii. sig. Oiiiv Semblable deckynge oughte to be in the house of a noble man... I meane concernynge ornamentes of halle and chambres..painted tables, and images.
1583 H. Howard Defensatiue (title page) Supposed Prophesies..grounded, eyther vppon the warrant and authority of olde paynted bookes, expositions of Dreames..or any other kinde of pretended knowledge whatsoeuer.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. ix. 354 It carried vpon the head, a pointed myter of painted paper.
1661 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1881) II. 471 In the south west round of the heigh pyntit hall [of the tolbooth].
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 294 To prevent my being known, I pull'd off my blue Apron, and wrapt the Bundle in it, which before was made up in a Piece of painted Callico, and very Remarkble [sic].
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. iii. 42 I looked on all the Town-Harlots with a Detestation... Their Persons appeared to me as painted Palaces inhabited by Disease and Death. View more context for this quotation
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer viii. 195 The use of such gaudy painted vehicles, in contempt of the..more simple..carts of their fathers.
1821 A. Hodgson Lett. from N. Amer. (1824) II. 110 Painted sleighs..are dashing along in all directions.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. vii. 103 The other gentlemen..wandered helplessly about afterward, burdened with wax flowers, painted fans, filagree portfolios, and other useful and appropriate purchases.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 572/1 These [catacombs] contain one very remarkable vault with curious painted reliefs.
1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 228 The man in the door had come partway down the painted wooden steps and sat smoking.
2002 A. Caulfield Show me Magic iv. 55 Isidore was pointing at a painted clay statue of a sword-wielding warrior.
b. figurative. Chiefly literary. Coloured so as to deceive; unreal, artificial; feigned, pretended.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance
paintedc1390
daubedc1400
cloakeda1500
fucate1531
fucated1535
coloured1537
flim-flam1577
tinsel1595
varnisheda1616
punkish1616
white-limeda1631
pargeted1645
tinselled1651
vizarded1663
lacquered1687
glossy1698
catchpenny1705
catch-shilling1808
tinselly1811
whitewashed1859
shoddy1882
veneered1884
hollowed-out1890
face-lifted1941
suede shoe1952
cosmetic1955
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 154 (MED) Þe peynted word þat fel biforen, Be-hynde, hit is anoþer hewe.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 268 (MED) Þei ben but feyned & peyntid men of religion.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 10945 (MED) For al thy peynted wordys swete, My staff..I wyl nat lete.
1528 W. Roy Satire (1845) Yf their paynted efficacite Is but as it semeth to be.
1588 W. Averell Meruailous Combat of Contrarieties sig. B Their beholders..while they affectionatlie gaze on their painted pride, doe lose the reason of men and become like stones.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 55 The harlots cheeke beautied with plastring art, is not more ougly to the thing that helps it, Then is my deede to my most painted word. View more context for this quotation
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 46 Sir Ed. Villiers his paynted friend, and Mompesson an obdurate enemy.
1677 J. Banks Rival Kings iii. i. 22 Admire no more in what you call my charms, Shun 'em young Prince, their all but painted harms.
1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs v. 67 Nor are you to be deceived by painted Expressions.
1785 S. Jackson Misc. II. 104 Trust me, dear ones, not a bauble, Which this painted world can show, Can deserve a moment's squabble.
1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. xix. 326 The life of men was a painted life.
1912 E. Pound in Poetry Rev. Feb. 74 It took the latinists of the Renaissance, and the Pleiade, and his own age of painted speech to prepare Shakespeare his tools.
1970 P. Buck China as I see It xii. 211 Reading Chinese poetry, it is true, but the old esoteric poetry and the dying classics, and repeating the painted emotions of the T'angs.
c. Of the face, etc.: artificially coloured, as with cosmetics. Of a person: wearing cosmetics, warpaint, etc. Also with up (cf. paint v.1 3a).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [adjective] > painted or coloured
painted1485
varnished1553
bepainted1594
plaster-faced1618
superficialized1623
farding1637
fuco'd1652
whitewashed1654
fucused1685
fardeda1763
1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 7 The said Mis-doers, by reason of their painted Faces, Visors, and other Disguisings could not be known.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1341 (MED) Resydyuacion gooth Toward Macrocosme, with a peyntyd fase.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. B5v Painted Nigrina with the picture face.
a1600 in Rev. Eng. Stud. (2008) 59 351 A paynted bewte is allway hated.
1615 Bp. J. Hall Imprese of God ii, in Recoll. Treat. 673 But alas, the painted faces, and mannishnesse, and monstrous disguisednesse of the one sexe.
1669 J. Fletcher Island Princess iv. v Your painted sister I despise too.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 16 They..who would..leave a sallow, washy, painted dutchess..for a ruddy, healthy, firm-flesh'd country-maid.
1784 J. Douglas Cook's Voy. Pacific I. Introd. p. lxxvi Great Britain itself, when visited by the Phœnicians, was inhabited by painted Savages.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 341 The painted beau with..long, flimsy, sky-blue coat.
1837 C. M. Sedgwick Live & let Live xvii. 167 Lucy looks prettier in her plain clothes than an old painted up person would, even dressed in mamma's clothes.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxi. 308 The French lady's great eyes and painted smiles would not bear comparison with Ethel's natural brightness and beauty.
1874 J. G. Whittier Eagle's Quill from Lake Superior ix War-chiefs with their painted brows, And crests of eagle wings.
1930 W. de la Mare On the Edge 295 That black-eyed, painted-up, feather-witted little Italian Countess.
1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother vi. 84 Painted prostitutes are hawking their pussies to Lebanese merchants.
1995 H. Mantel Exper. in Love (1996) v. 92 A miniature Florentine was poised at her painted lips.
2. Represented pictorially; set down or constituted in paint or colours, as a picture, likeness, or design.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [adjective] > represented in painting
depaint?c1225
painteda1400
depainted1413
limned1538
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23215 Painted [a1400 Trin. Cambr. peynted] fire..Þat apon awagh war wroght.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) i. l. 1655 Þat payntit figoure wiþ culouris fyne..he set vp syne.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Paynted ymages in silinges and tables, anaglypha.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie x. 56 Some painted picture or blasing of armes.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xlviii. sig. Mm5 What is [this] but to feed the auditory, with Dishes dressed by the painter, not the cooke?.. When examined..it proues a painted shoulder of mutton.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. iv. 38 in Wks. II That fine painted great Lady, and her three women for state, I'le haue.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 26 I viewed the Town on my left hand, which looked like the painted Scene of a City in a Theatre.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere ii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 13 As idle as a painted Ship Upon a painted Ocean.
1822 Hive 1 66/1 A series of finely painted scenes, which were made to change their effect and constructions, and accompany..the progress of the story.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 601 The torches..made more than daylight there, Lighting the painted tales of many a land, And carven heroes, with their unused glare.
1977 Woman's Own 26 Mar. 31/3 The blackened buildings, boarded up houses and the painted slogans in the housing estates.
1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. iii. 73 The painted image can be read, ‘The Aztecs have arrived in Tenochtitlan, the place of authority’.
3. Brightly coloured or variegated, as if painted.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured
brightOE
gay?c1225
paintedc1400
sheenc1400
staringc1400
freshc1405
wanton1583
splendid1634
amelled1651
vivid1686
strong1711
bloom-bright1832
flamboyant1851
technicolored1927
dazzle1931
Technicolora1940
fauve1967
the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > brightly
paintedc1400
prismatic1677
prismed1764
prismic1790
prismal1850
jazzy1917
psychedelic1965
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xv. 180 (MED) For hus peyntede feþeres þe pocok his honourede.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 896 in Poems (1981) 38 The peyntit pantheir, and the vnicorne.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riv The pecockes paynted fethers.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D4 The sheepeherd nipt with biting winters rage, Frolicks not more to see the paynted springe, Then I doe to behold your Maiestie.
1625 E. Davies Warning to Dragon 11 The third Beast..that had vpon the back of it foure Wings, like a Fowle or painted Bird.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 434 From Branch to Branch the smaller Birds..spred thir painted wings Till Ev'n. View more context for this quotation
1714 L. Eusden in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 140 And painted Meads smile with unbidden Flow'rs.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xlv. 179 We flutter about here and there, with all our vanities about us, like painted butterflies, for a gay, but a very short season.
1814 I. Lickbarrow Poet. Effusions 99 She mourns her painted blossoms gay, Untimely scatter'd on the ground.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) ix The hundred white sails crowding round Long Point in to Provincetown Harbor, seen over the painted hills in front, looked like toy ships upon a mantle-piece.
1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. i. 17 Wandering in the tropics or against the painted scene of the Mediterranean.
1993 E. Oldfield Sudden Fire (BNC) ‘As it's such a lovely evening—’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘—I thought I'd wander along and see you.’
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C1. Parasynthetic in various senses, as painted-cheeked, painted-winged, etc., adjs.
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1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 364 The green Psittacus, with variegated wings, and bluish legs... The painted-winged parrot.
1809 M. Berry Jrnl. 31 May in ‘L. Melville’ Berry Papers (1914) vi. 291 Such an over-dressed, bare-bosomed, painted eye-browed figure one never saw!
1828 J. Porter Field Forty Footsteps 371 The old painted-windowed passage.
1886 Harper's Mag. May 855/1 The group of white-sheeted, painted-faced young bucks gambling for cartridges on the road-side.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 331 As he was going to the place where he slept, he met a painted-cheeked woman in a greasy ‘kimono’.
1923 W. I. Thomas Unadjusted Girl (1924) iv. 103 In a few weeks she had developed from the little red hood and mittens with the stout shoes of the foreigner into a painted-cheeked brow-blacked prostitute.
1998 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 14 July 5 The world's most famous avenue was overflowing with painted-faced crowds linking arms and singing ‘La Marseillaise’.
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a. † painted ground n. Obsolete a section of the former Fleet Prison in London distinguished by the illustrations painted on its walls.† painted mischief n. Obsolete slang playing cards.
Painted Chamber n. [after Anglo-Norman Chaumbre Peynte, Chaumbre de Peynte (14th cent.)] a chamber in the old Palace of Westminster in London (destroyed by fire in 1834), whose walls were decorated with a series of battle scenes and in which from 1339 Parliament often assembled, or (occasionally) the sovereign met the two Houses of Parliament (now historical); any of various similarly decorated chambers in other palaces, halls, etc.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > place of
Painted Chamberc1543
parliament1547
c1543 in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 79 The parlement chambre & paynted chambre.
1654 (title) Speeches of His Highnesse the Lord Protector to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber.
1724 J. Swift Drapier's Let. VII in Wks. (1735) IV. 227 The painted Chamber, and Court of Requests,..are never so nobly filled, as when an Irish Appeal is under Debate.
1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 6 July 4/1 The other passages leading away from what he calls the ‘painted chamber’, were narrow and uninvitin'.
1990 M. Vale Angevin Legacy & 100 Year War (BNC) The representations of the Triumphant Virtues and Vices..in the Painted Chamber at Westminster.
1998 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 7 July 14 An even rarer survival is the mediaeval wall painting in the Painted Chamber of the Abbot's Lodging [in Cleeve Abbey].
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1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xl. 436 That portion of the prison which was nearest Farringdon-Street, denominated and called ‘the Painted Ground’.
1881 Standard 3 Oct. 2/1 Designs which remind the ancient spectator of that portion of the old Fleet Prison once known as ‘the painted ground’, because of the vivid illustrations that distinguished it.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun]
card1463
playing card1480
carte1497
bookc1575
charta1680
broad1789
flat1819
pasteboard1840
paper1842
painted mischief1879
boards1923
1879 Daily News 8 Mar. 5/2 There are plenty of ways of gambling..without the use of the ‘painted mischief’.
painted sheath n. see sheath n.1 1d.
painted woman n. a woman wearing cosmetics; spec. (euphemistic) a disreputable woman, a prostitute; cf. painted lady n. 1.
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1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. i. 66 I hate a Painted Woman in my heart, I suspect their Virtue.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xii. 459 You must take notice of that painted woman seated on a throne very near the gate. She is called Delusion.
1904 H. G. Wells Food of Gods iii. iii. 240 The drink-sodden wretchedness of the painted women at the corner.
1990 J. Rose Modigliani (BNC) 102 No old fat men, no painted women: all young, agreeable and spirited.
b. Forming the names of brightly coloured or variegated animals and plants.† painted mallow n. Obsolete rare a plant of the family Malvaceae, (probably) Sphaeralcea miniata, originating in South America and having bright red flowers.† painted clam n. Obsolete rare the sunray shell, Macrocallista nimbosa (family Veneridae), of the south-east coast of the United States, having a pinkish grey shell with radiating lilac bands.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.† painted hyena n. Obsolete rare the African hunting dog, Lycaon pictus, having short variegated black, white, and yellow fur.
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1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 25 M[alva]miniata, painted Mallow, a shrub introduced from South America in 1798.
painted bat n. a small bat of India and South-East Asia, Kerivoula picta (family Vespertilionidae), having deep orange or scarlet fur and fingers, and black wing membranes.
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1852 H. Murray Encycl. Geogr. 509 The following quadrupeds seem peculiar to this island [sc. Ceylon]:..Painted Bat.
1877 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 308 The Painted Bat..is a small species, having the head and body only an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters long.
1984 J. E. Hill Bats ii. 8 The wings of the Painted bat (Kerivoula picta) have highly contrasting orange and black markings.
painted beauty n. a large North American nymphalid butterfly, Cynthia virginiensis, that is brownish yellow with black and white markings.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Vanessa > vanessa virginiana (painted beauty)
painted beauty1899
1899 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Oct. 631 The Painted Beauty and the Cosmopolitan resemble each other strongly.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 237 Painted Beauty: Vanessa virginiensis... Also called American painted lady and Virginia lady.
painted bunting n. (a) a small, brightly coloured bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern United States (also called nonpareil); (b) = painted longspur n. (now rare).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Cardinalinae > genus Passerina > passerina ciris (painted bunting)
painted finch1731
nonpareil1755
painted bunting1811
incomparable1889
1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 68 Fringilla ciris. Painted Bunting... This is one of the most numerous of the little summer birds of Lower Louisiana.
1873 Amer. Naturalist 7 500 The Painted Bunting.—The Plectrophanes pictus visited southern Iowa last fall in great numbers.
1897 Science 2 July 32/2 Three species of Passerina—the Indigo Bird, Painted Bunting and Lazuli Finch.
1990 Nature Conservancy May 28/2 Myriad songbirds, from the common painted bunting to the rare Bell's vireo.
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Painted-clam.
painted cup n. chiefly North American any of various plants of the genus Castilleja (or, formerly, of the related genus Bartsia), having brightly coloured calyces; cf. paintbrush n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > other plants of the Scrophulariaceae
Bartsia1753
Mimulus1754
goatweed1756
painted cup1776
mullein foxglove1856
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American
innocent1600
lychnidea1733
swamp lily1737
atamasco lily1743
phlox1754
lychnis1760
painted cup1776
mountain pink1818
phacelia1818
innocence1821
Nemophila1822
clarkia1827
Physostegia1830
bitter root1838
standing cypress1841
false mermaid1845
lion's heart1845
shooting star1856
lewisia1863
satin flower1871
fame-flower1879
baby blue-eyes1887
mayflower1892
agastache1900
obedient plant1900
Pennsylvania anemone1900
rock rose1906
Virginia bluebell1934
parsley1936
poached egg flower1963
poached eggs1971
poached egg plant1977
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 369 Painted Cup... Bartsia... This genus is a sort of connecting link betwixt the Rattle the Eyebright and the Lousewort, but it is distinguished by the coloured cup.
1818 W. P. C. Barton Compendium Floræ Philadelphicæ II. 49 Bartsia coccinea... Painted-cup. A gorgeous and much admired plant.
1909 A. D. Cameron New North 143 One day we gathered coreopsis, pretty painted-cups,..our old friend yarrow, and golden-rod.
1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 June v. 9 We walked through a dry landscape dotted with the purple blooms of sweet vetch, the yellows of daisy painted cup and showy cinquefoil.
painted duck n. (a) the paradise shelduck, Tadorna variegata, of New Zealand; †(b) the mandarin duck, Aix galericulata (obsolete rare); †(c) the harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus (obsolete rare).Senses (b) and (c) are apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1777 J. Cook Voy. S. Pole I. v. 97 The largest are as big as a Muscovy duck, with a very beautiful variegated plumage, on which account we called it the Painted duck.
1889 Cent. Dict. at Duck Painted duck, (a) The Chinese mandarin-duck, Aix galericulata. (b) The harlequin. (Hudson's bay).
1930 W. R. B. Oliver New Zealand Birds 212 Paradise Duck... This fine species was discovered at Dusky Sound in 1773 during Cook's second voyage. Cook called it the Painted Duck.
1990 S. Marchant & P. J. Higgins Handbk. Austral., New Zealand & Antarctic Birds I. 1202 Tadorna variegata Paradise Shelduck... Other English names: Rangitata goose, painted duck.
painted finch n. any of various brightly coloured finches or similar small songbirds, esp. (a) Emblema pictum (family Estrildidae) of central Australia; (b) the painted bunting, Passerina ciris.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > other types of
painted finch1731
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Viduinae (whydah) > types of
painted finch1731
rooibek1867
king rooibekkie1868
shaft-tailed whydah1881
king of six1913
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Cardinalinae > genus Passerina > passerina ciris (painted bunting)
painted finch1731
nonpareil1755
painted bunting1811
incomparable1889
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Cardinalinae > genus Passerina > other types of
painted finch1731
lazuli-finch1831
saltator1882
1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 431 Fringilla tricolor, the painted Finch..; its Head and Neck are blue; its Back green, and the Belly red.
1842 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) III. Pl. 97 Emblema picta... Painted Finch.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 73 Painted Bunting... [Also called] Painted Finch.
1972 J. Jones Memories Golden Gate (rev. ed.) 8 The birds we trapped and hoped to trap, particularly the tiny beautiful creatures called as a group, painted finches, but the varieties were called ‘black Throats’, ‘double bars’, ‘zebras’, etc.
1996 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 58 In north Queensland, where it [sc. the Gouldian finch, Erythrura gouldiae] was commonly known as the painted finch, flocks of finches often sat in one tree, making it look like a Christmas tree.
painted goose n. North American the emperor goose, Anser canagica.
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1845 C. N. Bement Amer. Poulterer's Compan. X. 253 There are several varieties of the tame goose..painted Goose, laughing Goose, [etc.].
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 283 Painted Goose. Emperor Goose. Wavy bluish-gray, with lavender or lilac tinting.
1998 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 4 Aug. b.2 The striking bird, also known as a painted goose,..has a a grey body with black and white feather edging, a white tail, a white head, black throat, pink bill and orange legs and feet.
painted grass n. now rare a variegated cultivated form of reed canary grass, Phalaris arundinacea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > phalaris grasses
grass corn1548
phalaris1548
Canary seed1578
Canary grass1597
chameleon grass1597
lady's laces1597
painted grass1597
sword-grass1598
silver grass1600
Canary1723
reed canary grass1762
ribbon grass1786
gardener's garters1820
dagger-grass1834
daggers1847
bride's laces1854
canary reed1884
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 25 Vsually of our English women..called Ladies Laces, or Painted grasse.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 179 Painted Grass, or Ladies Laces.
1842 J. L. Knapp Gramina Britannica (ed. 2) Pl. xcviii Arundo colorata is a tall conspicuous aquatic... By cultivation the leaves of this Coloured Reed become striped in a very handsome manner, and the plant is then known in many a cottage garden..as ‘Painted-grass’, or ‘Ribbon-grass’.
1902 T. W. Saunders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 285 Phalaris (Canary Reed,..Gardeners' Garters,..Painted Grass, Ribbon Grass).
painted honeyeater n. an Australian honeyeater, Conopophila picta, having black, white, and yellow plumage and a pink bill.
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1843 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) IV. Pl. 50 I had been led to suspect that the actions and economy of the Painted Honey-eater would be found to differ materially from those of the other members of its family, and such proved to be the case.
1984 M. Blakers et al. Atlas Austral. Birds 550 The endemic Painted Honeyeater is migratory, breeding in southern Australia..and moving north in winter.
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1874 Amer. Cycl. IX. 102/1 The painted hyæna (L[ycaon]pictus, Temm[inck]) is by many thought to be a mere variety of the last [sc. Lycaon venaticus Burchell: now regarded as the same species].
1890 Cent. Dict. Painted hyena.]
painted longspur n. rare Smith's longspur, Calcarius pictus, a North American migratory bunting, the male of which has a black and white head, buff nape and underparts, and a white edge to the tail.
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1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 358 Painted longspur... It is not found in the Atlantic States, but is common on the prairies of Dakota, Montana, and southward.
1955 E. H. Forbsuh & J. B. May Nat. Hist. Amer. Birds 536 Smith's Longspur..Painted Longspur, Painted Bunting.
painted partridge n. a brightly coloured partridge, Francolinus pictus, of India and Sri Lanka.
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1844 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 3 44 Amongst other game..were..the painted partridge, and bustard.
1880 W. V. Legge Hist. Birds Ceylon 746 The Painted Partridge may be said to take the place of the Black in Central and Southern India.
1991 C. Willock Kingdoms of East iv. 96/2 The western hills of this park..are the home of the rare painted partridge.
painted quail n. any of various quails and similar birds with mottled plumage; esp. (a) (more fully Chinese painted quail) the blue quail, Coturnix chinensis, of Africa, South and South-East Asia, and Australia; (b) (more fully painted button-quail) an Australasian button-quail, Turnix varia.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus gallus (silk fowl)
silk cock1783
silk fowl1835
painted quail1848
silky1850
1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. Pl. 82 Hemipodius varius..Painted Quail, Colonists of Van Diemen's Land and Swan River.
1895 W. R. O. Grant in R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 416 The common painted quail (Excalfactoria chinensis) inhabits the Indo-Chinese countries, especially the lower hills.
1966 P. Slater & E. Lindgren Wildlife W. Austral. 8 A bird of the open woodland, the Painted Quail favours Wandoo forest.
2002 Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. (Features) More astonishing were the Chinese painted quail... These are the smallest game birds in the world: when fully grown they are only as big as a sparrow.
painted ray n. a short-nosed ray, Raja microocellata, of the eastern Atlantic, having a grey back covered with white spots and lines.
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1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 433 The Small-eyed Ray, or Painted Ray. Raia microcellata.
1999 Sea Angler May 116/4 Freshwater Ridges will be producing plenty of painted rays, with bass and a few turbot to add variety.
painted snipe n. either of two snipe-like wading birds constituting the family Rostratulidae, Rostratula benghalensis of Africa, Asia, and Australia, and Nycticryphes semicollaris of South America, the female of both species being more brightly coloured than the male, having a mainly brown and chestnut body with black and white markings.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > member of (miscellaneous)
painted snipe1811
pressiroster1842
seedsnipe1889
crab plover1893
1811 Sporting Mag. 63 Called the painted snipe.
1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 886 The so-called Painted Snipes, forming the genus Rostratula, or Rhynchæa... Three species are now admitted, natives respectively of South America, Africa and southern Asia and Australia.
1985 C. M. Perrins & A. L. A. Middleton Encycl. Birds 180 The intricate plumage of painted snipes is both extremely beautiful and a wonderful disruptive camouflage.
painted terrapin n. (a) = painted turtle n.; (b) an Asian terrapin, Callagur borneensis (family Emydidae).
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1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. 10 Painted Terrapin.
1904 W. T. Hornaday Amer. Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 327/1 The Painted Terrapin, hitherto called at random the Painted ‘Turtle’ and Pond-‘Tortoise’, is perhaps the most widely distributed species..in the United States.
1986 T. R. Halliday & K. Adler Encycl. Reptiles & Amphibians 76 Some species quickly cover the eggs and leave the area (eg most softshells and the Painted terrapin).
painted top n. (in full painted top-shell) a littoral gastropod mollusc, Calliostoma zizyphinum, which has a vividly coloured conical shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Trochidae > calliostoma zizyphinum
painted top-shell1865
1865 J. G. Wood Common Shells of Sea-shore xi. 100 The Painted Top-shell..is rather boldly ridged.
1865 J. G. Wood Common Shells of Sea-shore xi. 101 The name of Painted Top is given to it on account of the magnificent hues of the animal.
1972 S. P. Dance Shells 18 (caption) The Painted Top Shell is a gaily coloured species and has long tentacles.
1978 J. Metcalf in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 209 Scattered above and below the seaweed were the shells, limpet, mussel, periwinkle, whelk and cockle, painted top and piddock.
painted tortoise n. = painted turtle n.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > member of genus Chrysemys (painted turtle)
hicatee1697
chicken-turtle1785
painted tortoise1839
1839 D. H. Storer & W. B. O. Peabody Rep. Fishes, Reptiles & Birds Mass. 208 Chrysemys picta... The painted Tortoise.
1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iii. 12 The Painted Tortoise..is unquestionably the handsomest of our fresh-water species.
2002 Canad. Press (Nexis) 31 May Humane Society officials seized..1 Malaysian box turtle, 1 Eastern painted tortoise, 2 yellow-bellied sliders, [etc.].
painted trillium n. a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum having long white petals with a maroon marking near the base.
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1855 Harvard Mag. 1 236 The Painted Trillium (pictum) is by far the most delicate of the species.
1980 T. Wynne-Jones Odd's End xii. 95 In the cool woods, the wintergreen and painted trillium are in bloom.
painted turtle n. a small American freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta (family Emydidae), that is black or olive with red and yellow rings on the head and shell, and is often kept as a pet.
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1862 Second Ann. Rep. Nat. Hist. & Geol. State of Maine 141 Chrysemys picta... The Painted Turtle.
1949 Life 11 Apr. 81 A painted turtle cranes its neck in the spring sun.
1992 Nat. Hist. Jan. 23/1 The painted turtle ranges farther north than any other land or freshwater turtle in North America.
painted vulture n. now historical a kind of vulture described as occurring in Florida (see quot. 1791), but of which there were no other confirmed sightings, perhaps a variety of the king vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, or a separate species (named as S. sacra), now extinct.
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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 150 A beautiful bird, near the size of a turkey buzzard, but his wings are much shorter... I shall call this bird the painted vulture.
1856 De Bow's Rev. Jan. 22 The painted vulture, a bird of rare beauty, is seen only on the sabanas.
1941 Science 12 Dec. 552/1 Most of the criticism directed against Bartram has revolved about his accounts of the Alligator and the ‘Painted Vulture’.
2000 E. Fuller Extinct Birds 385 Mention might be made of the painted vulture. The eighteenth century traveller Bartram..recorded seeing birds that were similar to king vultures..in Florida.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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