whore's paint

alternative whore paint · alternative whore-paint

1. derogatoryuncountablevulgarExcessive, gaudy, or tasteless makeup.

   I will not have that . . . that whore's paint on my face!"

   1991, Jane Feather, The Eagle and the Dove, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 48

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   See — there is rouge and whore's paint on thy white starched and pleated shirt!

   1960, Pietro Di Donato, Three Circles of Light, Messner, page 238

   'Twas the whore's paint that fooled me, thought Tom. She's no more than twenty-two [...]

   1983, Cathy Cash Spellman, So Many Partings, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 164