Meaning of body-paint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To paint (something) on a person's skin.
   transitive
2. To apply body paint onto the skin of (someone).
   transitive

Examples

“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.”

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