maquillage

Example Sentences

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Perhaps this is the point; perhaps Anshaw means to shake us awake from our little narcissisms, our devout solipsisms, our daily applications of principled maquillage.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Although in many respects an unknown quantity, the new head of state would not dream of being so un-French as to ignore the demands of his maquillage.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2017

It was a private ritual, this morning maquillage, undertaken in public.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2017

My dad was an old-school news journalist at the BBC, back before our lives were overtaken by 24-hour speculative commentary delivered by “folks” with showgirl maquillage and foaming tresses ... and that’s just the men.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2012

I am not a believer in maquillage for the dead.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)