What is "tarted"

Usage examples of "tarted".

Since yesterday morning when Joe brought the bad news about Lucien to All Tarted Up, his mood had made a steady downward progress.

All Tarted Up were strung out and waiting for something major to happen.

They were about the size of a one-car garage, modular units tarted up at the factory to look like ranches, with old double-hung storm windows and hardened siding of harvest gold, barn red, forest green.

The guitarist was a glam-rock dynamo, a kid named Calvin who in fact bore a strong resemblance to the Calvin of comic strip fame, but punked out and tarted up considerably.

It was one of several on this mean little street, where doorjambs and window moldings had been tarted up by Pakistanis and Indians with more of a flair for color—especially marine blues and rusty reds—than had the Brindles.