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tarted-up adjective- dressed like a prostitute; dressed smartly UK
- — Christopher Buckley, Rain Before Seven, 1947
- Saskia Butler as the tarted-up schoolgirl in GamePlan [by Alan Ayckbourn] who can’t wait to exit from her basque. — The Guardian, 9 September 2002
- of a thing, business, building, etc., having a new image or presentation UK, 1984
Often derogatory in tone. - Two of the shopping arcades had been nicely tarted up and there was now a McDonald’s[.] — Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island, p. 72, 1995
- [T]heir wrappings not in any way tarted up, no attempt to rewrap them at all, or identify them. — The Guardian, 12 June 2003
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