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Depaint   Listen
verb
Depaint  v. t.  (past & past part. depainted; pres. part. depainting)  
1.
To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. (Obs.) "And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see." "In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons... depainted."
2.
To mark with, or as with, color; to color. "Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint."





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"Depaint" Quotes from Famous Books



... ruth her warlike mood, Few silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint; Her sorrow was for her that speechless stood, Her silence more prevailed than his complaint. She asked an aged man, seemed grave and good, "Come say me, sir," quoth she, "what hard constraint Would murder here love's queen and beauty's ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... depaint her lily hand, Her veins of violets, her ermine breast, Which there in orient colours living stand: Or how her gown with living leaves is drest, Or how her watchman, armed with boughy crest, A wall of prim hid in his bushes bears Shaking at every wind their leafy spears ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury


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