painted

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Ugliness being punished with the whip, the women painted to great excess; and a traveller in sixteen hundred and thirty-six saw the grand duchess and her ladies on horseback astride, 'most wickedly bepainted.'

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by Stephens, John Lloyd

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.

From A Virginia Scout by Hutchison, D. C.

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

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

The lustre paled and dimmed on one gaudily bepainted leg.

From Heart's Desire by Hough, Emerson

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.

From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir