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Definition of Bepaints
1. bepaint [v] - See also: bepaint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bepaints
Literary usage of Bepaints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1777)
"... wi;h ardour the panegyrical pencil, and bepaints his hero in the following
lines, which conclude this work ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... the glow Of hope, that feeling which bepaints the cheek Of the young maiden
with a rainbow streak, And that first freshness of glad youthful hearts, ..."
3. Introduction to Anthropology by Theodor Waitz (1863)
"What impels him is simply the pleasure to be beautiful in his own eyes and to be
admired by others, and so he bepaints and bedecks himself, ..."
4. The Works of the British Poets by Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh (1819)
"... this the angelic pow'rs Have done for you: but now an opal hue bepaints Heaven's
crystal to the longing view: Earth's late-hid colours shine, ..."
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