nail-polished

English

Alternative forms

• nailpolished

Etymology

From nail polish +‎ -ed.

Adjective

nail-polished (not comparable)

1. Wearing nail polish.
   • 1937 July 16, “Whiskers”, in Binghamton Press, volume 59, number 81, page 6:

     Let the swain of our times undertake the chin fringe that Grandpa wore when he courted Grandma and his lipsticked, nail-polished, dieting and bepowdered fraulein would give him his choice of barbershop, the sideshow and the air.

   • 1941 July 18, Joseph McDermott, “Girl Cab Drivers, Messengers Appear: Wartime Necessity May Force Use of Women, Oldsters in Young Men’s Jobs”, in The Bakersfield Californian, volume 53, number 302, Bakersfield, Calif., page 9:

     Meanwhile, lip-rouged and nail-polished girls, some attired in abbreviated shorts, sent gasoline sales rocketing upward 50 per cent at Oakland and Long Beach.

   • 1942 April 17, “Men Make Mock Wedding Success”, in The Monroe News-Star, volume 50, number 100, Monroe, La., page eight:

     No debutante ever gave more serious attention to clothes, hair, complexion and accessories than did the more than 60 men who strutted, gambolled, waltzed, hobbled or glided down the center aisle of the Neville High school auditorium, Tuesday night, to the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march rippling from the nail-polished fingers of lovely Leontine Hammond.