English
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Noun
whore's paint (uncountable)
- (vulgar, derogatory) Excessive, gaudy, or tasteless makeup.
- 1960, Pietro Di Donato, Three Circles of Light, Messner, pg. 238:
- See — there is rouge and whore's paint on thy white starched and pleated shirt!
- 1983, Cathy Cash Spellman, So Many Partings, Delacorte Press, ISBN 9780440078128, pg. 164:
- 'Twas the whore's paint that fooled me, thought Tom. She's no more than twenty-two [...]
- 1991, Jane Feather, The Eagle and the Dove, HarperCollins, ISBN 9780380761685, pg. 48:
- I will not have that . . . that whore's paint on my face!"