carmined

Their stockings were of lustrous silk, their slippers costly and unnatural, their lips carmined and their eyebrows penciled.

Babbit 2004

But her face was smoothly powdered and her lips carmined.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

But her face was smoothly powdered and her lips carmined.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

But her face was smoothly powdered and her lips carmined.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

But her face was smoothly powdered and her lips carmined.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

Apart from a narrow-eyed look and a faint pursing of her artfully carmined mouth, Madame made no comment.

Unwanted Wedding Jordan, Penny 1995

Though he wore his own hair-cut fairly short and whitish-grey in color-he had caked his face with an elaborate maquillage of snow-white cream and powder, carefully drawn in soot-black brows and lashes, artificially pinkened his cheeks, and heavily carmined his puckered old mouth.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

“I remind you, Gaius Julius, that this is my kingdom, not a province of Rome,” he said, his ridiculously carmined mouth unable to wear such anger appropriately.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The unsettling eyes within their embossed ritual framework slid from side to side, and the richly carmined mouth - full and self-indulgent-worked upon itself in a way which reminded Sulla of Philippus.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

A big but well-proportioned woman, the Queen had taken special care with her appearance; her golden hair was done in Greek style, her greenish-brown eyes ringed with stibium, her cheeks daubed with red chalk-powder, her lips carmined, and her hands and feet dark brown from henna.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991