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Noun
whore 's paint (uncountable )
( vulgar , derogatory ) Excessive , gaudy , or tasteless makeup .
1960 , Pietro Di Donato, Three Circles of Light , Messner, pg. 238 :
See — there is rouge and whore's paint on thy white starched and pleated shirt!
1983 , Cathy Cash Spellman, So Many Partings , Delacorte Press, →ISBN , pg. 164 :
'Twas the whore's paint that fooled me, thought Tom. She's no more than twenty-two [...]
1991 , Jane Feather, The Eagle and the Dove , HarperCollins, →ISBN , pg. 48 :
I will not have that . . . that whore's paint on my face!"