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/pˈeɪntəd/ /pˈeɪntɪd/ /pˈeɪnəd/ /pˈeɪnɪd/ Listen

adjective

Painted adj.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. "As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean."

(Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.

Painted beauty (Zool.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors,

Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.

Painted finch. See Nonpareil.

Painted lady (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.

Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

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Etymology of 'Painted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Painted" Quotes from Famous Books

... continually ringing as they carry the Sacrament to the sick. Even in Mr. Morris's earliest poems snatches of the sweet French tongue had always come with something of Hellenic blitheness and grace. And now it is below the very coast of France, through the fleet of Edward the Third, among the gaily painted medieval sails, that we pass to a reserved fragment of Greece, which by some divine good fortune lingers on in the western sea into the Middle Age. There the stories of The Earthly Paradise are told, Greek story and romantic alternating; and for the crew of the Rose Garland, ...

— Aesthetic Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater

... of the farthest prairie, beyond the foothills; in the heart of the mountains was its abiding place. As he had dreamed of those mountains in boyhood and youth, so now he dreamed his dreams over again with Mary Josephine. For her he painted his pictures of them, as they wandered mile after mile up the shore of the Saskatchewan—the little world they would make all for themselves, how they would live, what they would do, the mysteries they would seek out, the triumphs they would ...

— The River's End • James Oliver Curwood

... old man, Godefroid had noticed that the jambs of a door leading to another room were painted in a delicate manner, altogether different from that of the rest of the lodging. His curiosity, already so keenly excited, was now roused to the highest pitch. He was conscious that his mission of benevolence was becoming nothing more than a pretext; ...

— The Brotherhood of Consolation • Honore de Balzac

... the exception of the wreck of an armchair of uncertain history; but upon the forty-seven beams crossing the ceiling are fifty-four inscriptions in Latin and Greek, written, or rather painted, with a brush by Montaigne. Their interest has suffered a little from the restoration which some of them have undergone; but there they are, the crystals of thought picked up by the hermit of the tower in his wanderings along the highways and byways of ancient literature, and which he fastened, ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... plot; it abounds in action; the scenes are equally spirited and realistic, and we can only say we have read it with much pleasure from first to last. The pictures of life on a cattle ranche are most graphically painted, as are the manners of the ...

— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty

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