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单词 paint up
释义

paint up1

Australian (In Aboriginal English) decorate the body for ceremonial purposes: the dancers generally help one another to paint up...
  • They were all painted up and dancing that special dance of the sisters, djirrididi.
  • The Tjapukai dancers, painted up and in full costume, joined their people in protest demonstrations.
  • I found myself painted up and on an Aboriginal dance ground, unable to make any sense of the steps required.
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paint-up2

noun
Australian (In Aboriginal English) the decoration of the body for ceremonial purposes: your totem spirituality is awakened during the paint-up...
  • This awakening of energy in our own backyard - the cultural exchange, the process, the paint-up - you knew that a good spirit had to wake up.
  • Those who have gone before have taken their stories and paint-ups with them.
  • Nor do they bother very often about doing a paint-up, so far as I know.
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