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View synonyms for painted woman

painted woman

[ peyn-tid woom-uhn ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. a prostitute.


painted woman

noun

  1. old-fashioned.
    a woman whose appearance suggests she is promiscuous


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Example Sentences

Men were taught self-control about everything from their diet to how to resist the “painted woman.”

He was the first who painted woman with brilliant drapery and variegated head-dresses.

A dissolute, painted woman of Earth, staring out at Polter as he passed.

"You're a set of cowards," chimed in a painted woman, dressed in a poor and tawdry dress.

She painted woman as its victim, till every heart recoiled at the image she drew.

He did kill the poor painted woman; and then he was frightened, and thrust her poor body down into the sewer.

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