war paint

war paint

noun
1.
paint applied by American Indians to their faces and bodies before going to war.
2.
Informal. makeup; cosmetics.
3.
Informal. full dress; regalia.

Origin:
1820–30, Americanism
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To war paint

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

War paint is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Collins
World English Dictionary
war paint
 
n
1.  painted decoration of the face and body applied by certain North American Indians before battle
2.  informal finery or regalia
3.  informal cosmetics

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Slang Dictionary

war paint definition


  1. n.
    a woman's makeup. : She'll be ready when she gets on her war paint.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature