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paint·ed

(pān′tĭd)

adj.

1. Represented in paint.

a. Covered or decorated with paint.

b. Brightly colored; gaudy.

3. Excessively made up with cosmetics.

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painted

(ˈpeɪntɪd)

adj

coated with paint

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Adj.	1.	painted - coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" finished - (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product" unpainted - not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat; "an unpainted house"; "unpainted furniture"
	2.	painted - lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile" artificial, unreal - contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
	3.	painted - having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" unpainted - not having makeup on; "her sweet unpainted face"
	4.	painted - having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" multicolor, multi-color, multicolored, multi-colored, multicolour, multi-colour, multicoloured, multi-coloured, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, calico, motley coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

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He appreciated all kinds, and could have felt inspired by any one of them; but he had no conception of the possibility of knowing nothing at all of any school of painting, and of being inspired directly by what is within the soul, without caring whether what is painted will belong to any recognized school.

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Suppose I get acquainted with her in spite of you, and find that she very much wishes to be painted?"

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"That door, Sergeant," he said, "has been painted by Miss Verinder, under my inspection, with my help, and in a vehicle of my own composition.

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They quartered him in a room on the ground floor, where in place of leather hangings there were pieces of painted serge such as they commonly use in villages.

"I'll lay a bet," said Sancho, "that before long there won't be a tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber's shop where the story of our doings won't be painted up; but I'd like it painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these."

The painter or writer, for it's all the same, who published the history of this new Don Quixote that has come out, must have been one of this sort I think, Sancho, for he painted or wrote 'whatever it might turn out;' or perhaps he is like a poet called Mauleon that was about the Court some years ago, who used to answer at haphazard whatever he was asked, and on one asking him what Deum de Deo meant, he replied De donde diere.

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We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted, as students of the mystery of Form.

It was not painted for them, it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.

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'I was only going to ask if you had painted it yourself,' said I, sulkily resigning the picture into her hands; for without a grain of ceremony she took it from me; and quickly restoring it to the dark corner, with its face to the wall, placed the other against it as before, and then turned to me and laughed.

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He boasted of having painted a bath-room for Madame la Marechale d'Ancre, and mourned over this chamber having been burnt at the time of the marechal's disaster.

He did as Raphael had done -- he changed his style, and painted, in the fashion of the Albanian, two goddesses rather than two queens.

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He could not afford a model but painted still life, and Lawson constantly talked of a plate of apples which he declared was a masterpiece.