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单词 painted-winged
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painted-winged
C1. Parasynthetic in various senses, as painted-cheeked, painted-winged, etc., adjs.
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1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 364 The green Psittacus, with variegated wings, and bluish legs... The painted-winged parrot.
1809 M. Berry Jrnl. 31 May in ‘L. Melville’ Berry Papers (1914) vi. 291 Such an over-dressed, bare-bosomed, painted eye-browed figure one never saw!
1828 J. Porter Field Forty Footsteps 371 The old painted-windowed passage.
1886 Harper's Mag. May 855/1 The group of white-sheeted, painted-faced young bucks gambling for cartridges on the road-side.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 331 As he was going to the place where he slept, he met a painted-cheeked woman in a greasy ‘kimono’.
1923 W. I. Thomas Unadjusted Girl (1924) iv. 103 In a few weeks she had developed from the little red hood and mittens with the stout shoes of the foreigner into a painted-cheeked brow-blacked prostitute.
1998 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 14 July 5 The world's most famous avenue was overflowing with painted-faced crowds linking arms and singing ‘La Marseillaise’.
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