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paint⋅ed

   [peyn-tid]
–adjective
1. reproduced or represented in paint: a painted image.
2. covered with a coating of paint: a painted chair.
3. unreal; artificial; feigned: a painted life.
4. exaggerated or misrepresented: a luridly painted version of what really happened.
5. covered with makeup, esp. to excess.
6. brightly colored or multicolored (used in combinations).
Origin:
1250–1300; ME; see paint, -ed 2
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paint     (pānt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating.
    2. The thin dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface.
    3. The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle.
  2. A cosmetic, such as rouge, that is used to give color to the face; makeup.
  3. See pinto.
v.   paint·ed, paint·ing, paints

v.   tr.
  1. To make (a picture) with paints.
    1. To represent in a picture with paints.
    2. To depict vividly in words.
  3. To coat or decorate with paint: paint a house.
  4. To apply cosmetics to.
  5. To apply medicine to; swab: paint a wound.
  6. To shine a laser beam on, especially in order to designate a target for laser-guided munitions.
v.   intr.
  1. To practice the art of painting pictures.
  2. To cover something with paint.
  3. To apply cosmetics to oneself: "Let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come" (Shakespeare).
  4. To serve as a surface to be coated with paint: These nonporous surfaces paint badly with a brush.

[From Middle English painten, to paint, from Old French peintier, from peint, past participle of peindre, from Latin pingere; see peig- in Indo-European roots.]
paint'a·bil'i·ty n., paint'a·ble adj.
paint·ed     (pān'tĭd)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Represented in paint.
    1. Covered or decorated with paint.
    2. Brightly colored; gaudy.
  3. Excessively made up with cosmetics.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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painted

adjective
1. coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [ant: unpainted] 
2. lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile" 
3. having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" [ant: unpainted] 
4. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley] 

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Painted Post, NY (village, FIPS 56088)
Location: (42.161188, -77.091315)
Population (2000): 1,842 (879 housing units)
Area: 1.264200 sq mi (land), 0.060840 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 14870

Painted Woods, ND (township, FIPS 01560580)
Location: (47.083775, -100.873856)
Population (2000): 111 (45 housing units)
Area: 36.658416 sq mi (land), 0.998269 sq mi (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Painted

Paint"ed\, a. 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.

As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. --Coleridge.

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

Painted beauty (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.

Painted turtle (Zo["o]l.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

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