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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bepaint.

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Examples

  • Mayor seeing in the morning, seemed to be little troubled at it; but said, certainly some body hath done this, that I have taken too little mony of, and therefore in gratitude have, for nothing, thus bepainted my delicately painted house.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • And in this marvelous setting strut or stroll figures that might have stepped straight from the stage of _Sumurun_ -- fantastically garbed functionaries of the Household, shaven-headed priests in yellow robes, pompous mandarins in sweeping silken garments, bejeweled and bepainted dancing-girls.

    Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

  • As if the day had not been hideous enough a bepainted warrior burst through the undergrowth as she finished, with his bow raised and an arrow drawn to the head.

    A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

  • Like hideous spots stood out of the gray murkiness the bepainted furniture and the sweetish oleographs on the walls.

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

  • Le Loutre was at the commandant's quarters with a half dozen befeathered and bepainted braves, in each of whom Pierre presently recognized a fellow-Acadian skillfully disguised.

    The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • The lustre paled and dimmed on one gaudily bepainted leg.

    Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

  • Over toward the dun-tinted west a house was blazing, fired by some stray bomb, perhaps, or by official design, to hinder the enemy from utilizing the shelter, and its red rage of destruction bepainted the clouds that hung so low above the chimneys and dormer-windows.

    The Lost Guidon 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • In that corner, is the returned soldier, who has just been paid off, and who is now expending the hard-earned pittance of the government upon some bepainted and bedizened courtesan, while perhaps his wife and family are suffering for want of the common necessaries of life.

    The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • 'Of the military classes in those old times, whose buff-belts, complicated chains and gorgets, huge churn-boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign-post character, -- I shall here say nothing: the civil and pacific classes, less touched upon, are wonderful enough for us.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Morrice, haue so bepainted mee in print since my gambols began from

    Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833

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