nailpolished

Holly’s school art project—an old bathtub that had been painted with daisies and avant-garde designs—squatted in the comer, its nailpolished lion’s feet gripping the cement floor in defiance.

1970, William C[harles] Anderson, “The Blues Migratoria”, in Roll Up the Wallpaper, We’re Moving!, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →LCCN, page 71

Give me some helpful hints on what revolutionary cleaning agent could make the women on the corner break into bloom again, rinse the bum’s mouth with rosewater, straighten and anoint those gnarled, nailpolished claws?

1976, Robin Morgan, “The City of God”, in Lady of the Beasts, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 20–21

He smiled as her yellow nailpolished toenails blinked in and out from under the hem of her gown.

2003, Sallie Lowenstein, “The Jacks”, in Sender Unknown, Kensington, Md.: Lion Stone Books, →ISBN, page 213

The Rakhine family’s eccentric transvestite servant, in iridescent sarong and frosted lipstick, would sashay out with the tea tray, proffering the biscuit plate with his nailpolished right hand and a bow.

2005, Edith Mirante, “Vultures Over Chittagong”, in Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma’s Frontiers, Bangkok: Orchid Press, →ISBN, page 15

I used to think I was giving society a big ol’ black-nailpolished middle finger as I would strut down the streets in my Docs and torn fishnets.

2014, Melanie Klein, “F*** Yer Beauty Standards!”, in Melanie Klein, Anna Guest-Jelley, editors, Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, part three (Culture and Media), page 118