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painted woman

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painted woman
n
Old-fashioned, derogatory a woman whose appearance suggests she is promiscuous
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painted woman
nFlittchen nt (inf)


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Ellie, aged 48, of Wyken, who also painted Woman on the Verge, said: "Both pieces are about the person within.
On "Picasso," a song about a man obsessed with a painted woman, Cope shows his propensity for folky tales involving strange characters.
Like many feminist critics, Finke echoes these arguments, identifying the "life-denying tendencies" of cosmetics with patriarchal poetic ideals of female beauty: "by attempting to kill herself into art, to realize in her own flesh the idealizations of the lyricists, [the] painted woman literally kills herself" ("Painting Women," 358 and 364).
 
 
 
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