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grease paint

noun

  1. an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  2. theatrical makeup.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grease paint1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

They said she had makeup that was like grease paint that was melting off her face.

Fitting for a portrayal pair of Broadway superstars, the series has grease paint running through its DNA.

Fitting for a portrayal pair of Broadway superstars, the series has grease paint running through its DNA.

The character he performed – a limping, shuffling old black field-hand in jet black grease paint made from burnt cork – would ossify as the archetypal blackface minstrel.

It reduces identity to a pot of grease paint, to a joke.

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