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单词 painted lady
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painted ladyn.

Brit. /ˌpeɪntᵻd ˈleɪdi/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)əd ˈleɪdi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: painted adj., lady n.
Etymology: < painted adj. + lady n.
1. A woman wearing cosmetics; a prostitute; = painted woman n. at painted adj. Compounds 2a.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
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waistcoateera1625
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coolera1632
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painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
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high-flyer1663
fireship1665
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lady of the night1677
mawks1677
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man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
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fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
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girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
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cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
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horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 86 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) A reverend painted Lady was brought, And coffin'd in crust, till now she was hoary.
1709 R. Gould Wks. II. 232 Here painted Ladies..Mobb'd like Dowdies at the House of Prayer.
1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. viii. 133 Painted ladies, that come out of a night with low necks and flowers in their hair, to have all Carlingford a-staring at them, ain't fit company for a good pastor.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xvii The painted lady who always came in late.
1986 B. Dijkstra Idols of Perversity iii. 77 The decorative and mildly..erotic implications purveyed by such bevies of pleasantly exhausted painted ladies made these works ideal for clubs and public buildings.
1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 59/2 Switched-on Bach transforming into bitched-on schlock, a sweet painted lady with lotsa kids bribing a judge fleshwise.
2. A migratory nymphalid butterfly, Cynthia (or Vanessa) cardui, having brownish orange wings with black and white markings, and found worldwide (except in South America). Also (in full American painted lady): the painted beauty, C. virginiensis, of North America.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Vanessa > vanessa cardui (painted lady)
painted lady1699
thistle-butterfly1836
1699 J. Petiver Musei Petiveriani iv-v. 35 Papilio eleganter variegat. agilis..The Painted Lady.
1766 M. Harris Aurelian 24 The Painted Lady... These [butter]Flies are not very common; the Reason of which is, all Weathers do not agree with them.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 174 Papilio Pictus, Painted Lady Butterfly.
1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 258 Very frequent is the painted lady (V. cardui) which rocks on flowers in all parts of the globe.
1890 Daily News 14 Oct. 5/1 The butterflies of autumn, admiral and painted lady, sail from bush to bush.
1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 137 Among the other butterflies common to the prairie and its borders are the red admiral..and the painted lady (V. cardui), which is fond of thistle flowers.
1991 Newsday (N.Y.) 23 Feb. ii. 28 The American painted lady caterpillars are partial to pussy toes.
3.
a. A particoloured variety of carnation or garden dianthus. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations
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carnation1538
clove gillyflower1538
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maidenly pink1597
mountain pink1597
clove-carnation1605
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London pride1629
pride of London1629
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Indian pink1664
Spanish pink1664
pheasant's eye pink1718
flake1727
flame1727
picotee1727
old man's head1731
painted lady1731
piquet1731
China-pink1736
clove1746
wild pink1753
lime-wort1777
matted thrift1792
clove-pink1837
Cheddar Pink1843
Dianthus1849
bunch pink1857
perpetual-flowering carnation1861
cliff pink1863
meadow pink1866
musk carnation1866
Jack1873
wax-pink1891
Malmaison1892
grenadin1904
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Carophyllus The Damask Pink, White Shock, Scarlet, Pheasant's-ey'd Pink; of which there are great Varieties, both with single and double Flowers, Old Man's Head, Painted Lady, with several others.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Painted lady, a term for a particular sort of carnations, the flowers of which have all their petals red or purple on the out side, and white underneath.
b. A bicoloured form of the sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus (also painted lady pea and †painted lady pease), or of the scarlet runner, Phaseolus coccineus (also painted lady scarlet runner).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers
everlasting pea1599
sweet-scented pea1728
sweet pea1732
painted lady pea1760
pea-flower1824
pride of California1895
1760 J. Alcock Life Miss F. Brown i. 5 Her Face was adorned with White and Red, like the blossom of a painted lady pea.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Painted Lady Pease, Lathyrus.
1800 M. Edgeworth Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) V. 210 The seedsman was folding up some painted-ladypease.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Painted lady, the name of a beautifully variegated pea, the Lathyrus odoratus of Linnæus.
1851 Birmingham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Apr. 45 A row of Scarlet Runners may be sown (those called Painted Ladies are very ornamental as well as useful).
c1878 T. E. Brown Capt. Tom & Capt. Hugh 29 Hughie was settin' convolvulars, And Annie was setting these—what's their name? Painted ladies! aye, the same—Like butterflies mostly—lovely things, With their little curly catchy strings!
1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 244/2 The Common Scarlet Runner with scarlet flowers, and black..seeds... the Painted Lady with scarlet and white flowers and brown..seeds [etc.].
1995 Independent 27 May 31/2 A tunnel of hazel sticks, supporting ‘Painted Lady’ runner beans.
c. Chiefly South African and Australian. Any of several species of gladiolus with pink markings on its flowers. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > gladioli or freesia
gladiolec1420
corn-flag1578
corn-sedge1597
lily-grass1597
sword-grass1598
petty gladdon1601
sword-lily1786
Afrikaner1801
freesia1879
kalkoentjie1906
painted lady1906
Afrikander1913
glad1923
1906 B. Stoneman Plants S. Afr. xix. 198 Gladiolus... ‘Painted Ladies’ and ‘Kalkoentjes’ belong here. Eighty-one species of this large genus are found in South Africa.
1927 Farming S. Afr. 171 How often does one see..the beautiful ‘painted ladies’ or ‘aandblommetjies’ adding scent to the garden in the evening.
1972 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. V. 202/1 The painted ladies (e.g. G. carneus) have white or pink trumpet-shaped flowers with markings on the lower perianth lobes.
1997 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 27 Mar. 16 Most nurseries stock the popular G[ladiolus] × colvillei, The Bride, and G. carneus, painted lady.
4. U.S. A style of 19th-cent. house decorated with brightly coloured paintwork, particularly associated with parts of San Francisco.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > other types of house
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showernc1175
house of fencec1425
abbey1665
park1750
trust house1751
subhouse1771
hurley-house1814
bure1843
ideal home1854
tholtan1856
picture house1858
village-house1862
tumble-down1866
tree-house1867
mazet1873
riad1881
slaughterhouse1899
whare puni1911
mas1912
social housing1928
quadruplex1939
share house1945
starter home1948
show house1957
painted lady1978
self-build1978
starter1979
Earthship1985
Queenslander1985
des res1986
common house1989
1978 E. Pomada & M. Larsen Painted Ladies 7/1 San Francisco is a haven for people who can appreciate as well as create Painted Ladies... The Colorist Movement developed spontaneously but haltingly in the 1960s... Thanks to the passion and creativity of painters, colorists, and homeowners, the Painted Ladies..are now more beautiful than ever.
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Book World section) 11 A house tour of San Francisco's ‘Painted Ladies’, Victorian row-houses tarted up with gaudy colours.
1996 Mid-Atlantic Weekends Spring 63/1 The estate also includes the Wedgewood House, built in 1870, a Victorian ‘painted lady’ with a wraparound veranda.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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