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visagiste

visagiste noun: a make-up artist.

Noun

visagiste (plural visagistes)

  1. A make-up artist.
    • Ordinarily, my impulse would have been to call of all the re-making and go promptly to sleep, but before I firmed up this thought, the visagiste went to work on me with a large tuft of cotton[…]1958, Vogue, volume 131, page 105
    • 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 visagiste

pluralvisagistes

Origin of visagiste

Borrowed from French visagiste.

Questions about visagiste

What does visagiste mean?
Visagiste means a make-up artist.
What part of speech is visagiste?
Visagiste is a noun.
What is the plural of visagiste?
The plural of visagiste is visagistes.

Words near visagiste in the dictionary

  1. visage
  2. visaged
  3. visages
  4. Visaginas
  5. visagist
  6. visagiste
  7. visagistes
  8. visagists
  9. Visagraph
  10. Visagraphs
  11. visaing

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