corpsepaint
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of black-and-white makeup used primarily by black metal musicians and fans, intended to make the wearer appear inhuman, corpselike, or demonic.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Many black metal musicians dress in black robes and wear exaggerated white-and-black “corpsepaint” on their faces, […]"
- "You get kids over there in corpsepaint going to a death metal show, but then are going to go to [a] Darkness show. […]"
- "Far more Pagan metal bands appear in the traditional black metal corpsepaint."