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Bedaub   Listen
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Bedaub  v. t.  (past & past part. bedaubed; pres. part. bedaubing)  To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. "Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish."






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"Bedaub" Quotes from Famous Books



... the deceased is wrapped up in a cloth, closely sewed around it, and the head is covered with a white cap of cotton, which is the colour universally adopted in mourning. The relatives of the deceased bedaub themselves from head to foot with white clay, upon which they form the most disgusting figures, while scarcely a leg or an arm exhibits the same feature. I have even seen serpents and other frightful animals delineated with great accuracy on many parts of the body, which gives them a most hideous ...
— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry

... childish costume of the place and period, to stare at grey street-scenery (that of early Victorian London had tones of a neutrality!) dawdle at shop-windows and buy water-colours and brushes with which to bedaub eternal drawing-blocks. We might, I dare say, have felt higher impulses and carried out larger plans—though indeed present to me for this, on my brother's so expressing himself, is my then quick recognition ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James



Words linked to "Bedaub" :   cover, besmear



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