Body-paint
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To paint (something) on a person's skin. transitive
"At this point, it’s an institution, with a coterie of recurring performers and its own crowd rituals — among them offers of “free hugs” body-painted on people’s chests. For all its clamor and its ritualized, channeled aggression, Warped is pretty wholesome."
- 2 To apply body paint onto the skin of (someone). transitive
"In front of the fair Nischol, Rekha appeared dark. Such a heroine was considered unacceptable. ‘I was standing for an hour while someone body-painted me from head to toe. Because in those days, heroines were required to be fair. In the north they have this fairness hang-up. They painted all the junior artists white in all of D. Ramanaidu films,’³ Rekha said."
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More examples"At this point, it’s an institution, with a coterie of recurring performers and its own crowd rituals — among them offers of “free hugs” body-painted on people’s chests. For all its clamor and its ritualized, channeled aggression, Warped is pretty wholesome."
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