Tattooing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Tattooing}.] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to
     tattoo, tatu puncturation (in Otaheite).]
     To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as
     to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.
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