bepaint

[ bih-peynt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or smear with paint.
2. to color or tint:

   a face bepainted with excessive makeup.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bepaint¹

First recorded in 1545–55; be- + paint

Example Sentences

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.

From Project Gutenberg

Bepaint, be-pānt′, v.t. to paint over: to colour.

From Project Gutenberg

Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.

From Project Gutenberg

Stalin: Thou knowst the iron curtain masks my face Else might I blush, perchance bepaint my cheek, For meeting thee half way.

From Time Magazine Archive

The beautiful passage— Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night— was declaimed with the painful precision of a schoolgirl who has been taught to recite by some second-rate professor of elocution.

From Project Gutenberg