WAR PAINT meaning: Cosmetic camouflage used in battle

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word war paint:

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war paint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
war paint: Merriam-Webster
war paint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
war paint: Collins English Dictionary
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war-paint, war paint: Wordnik
war paint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
war-paint, war paint: Wiktionary
war paint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
war paint: Infoplease Dictionary
war paint: Dictionary.com
War Paint (Fletcher song), War Paint (Lorrie Morgan album), War Paint (horse), War Paint (musical), War Paint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
war paint: Rhymezone
war paint: FreeDictionary.org
war paint: Mnemonic Dictionary
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war paint: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

war paint: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
The War Paint, War Paint: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (war paint)

▸ noun: Pigments ritually applied to the face and/or body (originally and still especially of a Native American warrior) prior to going into a battle.
▸ noun: (informal) Cosmetics, makeup.

Opposite:

peaceful makeup, natural look, no makeup

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