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paint up1Australian (In Aboriginal English) decorate the body for ceremonial purposes: the dancers generally help one another to paint up...- They were all painted up and dancing that special dance of the sisters, djirrididi.
- The Tjapukai dancers, painted up and in full costume, joined their people in protest demonstrations.
- I found myself painted up and on an Aboriginal dance ground, unable to make any sense of the steps required.
See parent entry: paint paint-up2nounAustralian (In Aboriginal English) the decoration of the body for ceremonial purposes: your totem spirituality is awakened during the paint-up...- This awakening of energy in our own backyard - the cultural exchange, the process, the paint-up - you knew that a good spirit had to wake up.
- Those who have gone before have taken their stories and paint-ups with them.
- Nor do they bother very often about doing a paint-up, so far as I know.
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