Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A widely distributed butterfly (Vanessa cardui) having brown, black, and orange markings. Also called cosmopolite, thistle butterfly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The thistle-butterfly, Vanessa (or Pyrameis) cardui, of an orange-red color spotted with white and black. See cut in next column.
- n. The sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus.
Wiktionary
- n. A cryptic patterned butterfly, Vanessa cardui, of the family Nymphalidae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘painted lady’.
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phraseologue ⊃ the one-two punch
short (mostly two-word) collocations, pat phrases, idioms &c. that I like
merry chase, glancing blow, beast mode, feedback loop, false flag, dear god, nothing human, deflector shield, hatchet job, not cricket, bang on, a tinker's damn and 253 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 348 more...
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Poetic Butterfly Names
Order Lepidoptera. I've always been fascinated by the poetic beauty of common butterfly names.
tawny emperor, whirlabout, many-spotted skip..., common streaky-sk..., confused cloudywing, sickle-winged ski..., frosted flasher, broken silverdrop, blackened bluewing, painted lady, rockslide checker..., queen of spain fr... and 34 more...
Tweets
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alexz it's a 1997 movie title and several book titles.
I remember seeing a movie in the 70's where it referred to a tattooed lady.
Criminal Slang: The Vernacular of the Underground Lingo (1913) - Page 170
http://books.google.ca/books?id=nN81uyN8WmIC
Mar 1, 2013
bilby "We're always looking for new Painted Ladies: Victorians painted in three or more colors that highlight the architecture's ruffles and flourishes."
- paintedladies.com
That's Victorian (and Edwardian) houses and buildings. A few in the visuals. Mar 1, 2013
ry I always thought this was an archaic euphemism for a prostitute. Can't find any citations right now though. Mar 1, 2013