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face-maker

face-maker noun: one who makes a face.

Noun

face-maker (plural face-makers)

  1. One who makes a face.
    • ‘Messieurs et Mesdames, I present to you at this Fair, […] the Ventriloquist, the Ventriloquist! Further, Messieurs et Mesdames, I present to you the Face-Maker, the Physiognomist, the great Changer of Countenances, who transforms the features that Heaven has bestowed upon him into an endless...1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC
  2. A make-up artist.
    • What is a face-maker, a visagiste, a cosmetic artist? He—more often than she—is the creative talent behind a new look which will catch on and make us all wish to look like Alice in Wonderland or Mata Hari depending on the mood he's projecting.1972 July, Harper's Bazaar, volume 105, page 36

Forms of face-maker

pluralface-makers

Questions about face-maker

What does face-maker mean?
Face-maker means one who makes a face.
What part of speech is face-maker?
Face-maker is a noun.
What is the plural of face-maker?
The plural of face-maker is face-makers.

Words near face-maker in the dictionary

  1. face-down
  2. face-downs
  3. face-first
  4. face-lift
  5. face-lifts
  6. face-maker
  7. face-makers
  8. face-melter
  9. face-melters
  10. face-melting
  11. face-off

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