Word of the Day Tuesday April 24, 2012
| fard \fahrd\ | |
| verb: | |
| 1. To apply cosmetics. | |
| noun: | |
| 1. Facial cosmetics. | |
| She's farded inch-thick with affectation. She's perfumed to suffocation with the musk of pretence. The colour on her cheek is part paint, part mock-modesty. | |
| -- Mary Cowden Clarke, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines | |
| Holding a candle dramatically high, wrapped in a very shabby old housegown, with some kind of fard on her cheeks and her grey hair screwed up in short plaits above her ears, she had a rather ridiculous air... | |
| -- Phyllis Bentley, Love and Money Fard comes from the Old Low | |
| Franconian word farwiđon meaning "to dye or color." In the Old French it became farder meaning "to apply makeup." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for fard |
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