Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of greasepainted.
Soldiers with grease-painted faces guarded gas stations, and most businesses were shut.
1989 November 16, Richard Boudreaux, Marjorie Miller, “San Salvador Slums Reeling Under Attacks”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jan 20252 more examples
Thirty-five men and women, dressed and grease-painted to simulate burned, shocked and broken “victims of the bomb attack,” took positions in Falls Street.
1953 June 6, William M. Farrell, “Mock Atomic Bomb Hits Niagara Falls […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLCMattie Faint has been a professional clown since he was 17 when, as a theatre student up from Plymouth, he got a gig as a grease-painted human signpost for a puppet show in London.
2015 June 7, Tim Adams, “Last of the clowns?”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2015
Origin
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