Body-paint

Quick meaning: Body-paint is a verb meaning (transitive) To paint (something) on a person's skin.

Meaning

(transitive) To paint (something) on a person's skin.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To apply body paint onto the skin of (someone).

Example Sentences

At this point, it’s an institution, with a coterie of recurring performers and its own crowd rituals — among them offers of “free hugs” body-painted on people’s chests. For all its clamor and its ritualized, channeled aggression, Warped is pretty wholesome.

In front of the fair Nischol, Rekha appeared dark. Such a heroine was considered unacceptable. ‘I was standing for an hour while someone body-painted me from head to toe. Because in those days, heroines were required to be fair. In the north they have this fairness hang-up. They painted all the junior artists white in all of D. Ramanaidu films,’³ Rekha said.

Word Forms

• body-paints
• body-painting
• body-painted

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