Now dearest Gerald uses pinky greasepaint and gilds his eyelids.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
Della Fox was born in St. Louis on October 13, 1872. Her father, A. J. Fox, was a photographer, who made something of a specialty of theatrical pictures; and thus Della's babyhood was passed, not exactly in the playhouse atmosphere, perhaps, but certainly in an atmosphere next door to that of the greasepaint and footlights.
"Famous Prima Donnas"
Lewis Clinton Strang
Persons of a figure remotely reconcilable with his were subjected to quite extraordinary inquisitions, made to scrub their faces before going on board ship, as if each white complexion were made up like a mask, of greasepaint.
"The Wisdom of Father Brown"
G. K. Chesterton