单词 | to paint over |
释义 | > as lemmasto paint over to paint over transitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > gild overgildOE gildOE gilt?a1400 to paint overa1400 overgilt?a1425 engildc1475 limn1548 deaurate1562 regild1583 begild1600 a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 1267 (MED) Peynted as pur gold alle þe place was ouer. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 371 He..led hom..Into a chamber..þat proudly was painted with pure gold ouer. 2. To cover with paint; to cover with another colour or layer of paint. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1590 Sir P. Sidney Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia iii. viii. f. 271v Nor yet seeme ougly to him, whose truely-affected minde, did still paint it ouer with the beautie of Philoclea. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 39 The Galley..her hulke painted over with sparkling vermilion. 1668 R. Howard Great Favourite ii. ii. 23 Nature Painted thee over with a fair resemblance Of her blest Image. 1709 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 7 With that he arose full of Malice and Spight, To see his black Cloaths painted over with white. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 417 The whole is painted over with a preparation of whiting and size to form the ground. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. vi. 71 His weary face now began to be painted over with a rich orange glow. 1965 A. Lurie Nowhere City ix. 85 The shop windows had been painted over in irregular rectangles of red, blue, green and white. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) ii. 60/4 If you want to paint over old bitumen paint, use an aluminium primer first. < as lemmas |
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