bedaub

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The women wear small ear-rings of silver, but use no paint, nor do they bedaub their persons with any sort of pigment.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Huish, Robert

Besmear, be-smēr′, v.t. to smear over: to bedaub: to pollute.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Some tribes paint the face only; others, on the contrary, do not touch that part; but bedaub with colors their arms, feet, and breasts.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew