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Her feet, covered in bold red henna, outstretched before her on the stone bench as she sat nursing a cup of shaah in one hand, basking in the sun and resting for a time.

The stores offer permanent ink tattoos and temporary henna tattoos, along with piercings and the usual assortment of beach goods.

His children were training to do piercings and henna tattoos.

All of it — the tattoos, the henna, the piercings and airbrush art — shared a common allure for beach visitors, Zarfati said.

I joined because we had fundraisers and sleepovers where we would sneak out and go get food, or we would do, like, henna tattoos.

From Vox

In the center of the street, somebody is painting henna tattoos.

"It is past," cried she, bending her henna-dyed hand across her brow, as if to drive away a vapor.

Her eyes were lozenges of antimony; her hands, dipped in henna, seemed clad in pale kid gloves.

Flesh-colored stockings, Petticoat decreed, and henna slippers with carved jade buckles.

The tips of the fingers shade to a deep rose color, such as is imparted by the henna of the Orientals.

And thus, joy suddenly faded into horror, and the most beautiful became the most hideous, as Hinnon became Ge-Henna.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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