product

en-noun

product (countable and uncountable, plural products)

From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

He puts his fingers in Miller’s hair, which is greasy with product.

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 153:

Wash excess product out of your hair.

(cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. Often specifically a preparation used to hold one's hair in a desired arrangement.


autumn

autumn (countable and uncountable, plural autumns)

Autumn Harvest Uprising
Autumnfest
German Autumn
Hot Autumn
Lacus Autumni
autumn

Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus.
Some verb senses are from Latin autumnāre.

(fashion) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.


industrial

industrial (nominative singular)
industriale (nominative plural)
industrialu (genitive singular)
industriali (genitive plural)
industrialów (genitive plural)
industrialowi (dative singular)
industrialom (dative plural)
industrial (accusative singular)
industriale (accusative plural)
industrialem (instrumental singular)
industrialami (instrumental plural)
industrialu (locative singular)
industrialach (locative plural)
industrialu (singular vocative)
industriale (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English industrial.

ubor

(slang) industrial piercing (piercing, especially of the upper ear cartilage, in which two pierced holes are connected with a single straight piece of jewelry)


accessory

desc

אַקְסֵסוֹרִי

→ Hebrew: אַקְסֵסוֹרִי (aksésori)

→ Japanese: アクセサリー (akusesarī)

→ Korean: 액세서리 (aekseseori)

From Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

One of the first of a wave of American women contemporary designers who emerged in the 1990s, she [Kate Spade] built a brand on the appeal of clothes and accessories that made shoppers smile.

2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman, Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-06:

(fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.


winter

en-noun

winter (countable and uncountable, plural winters)

From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).

(countable, fashion) Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.


summer

summer (countable and uncountable, plural summers)

Great Summer Army
Red Summer
Revolution Summer
Summer Archbishop's Palace
Summer Coast
Summer Garden
Summer Isles
Summer Palace (disambiguation)
Summer Paralympics
Summer of Three Popes
Summercon
Summerfest
Year Without a Summer
summer

From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”).
Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer”), West Frisian simmer (“summer”), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer”), Dutch zomer (“summer”), Low German Sommer (“summer”), German Sommer (“summer”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (“summer”), Swedish sommar (“summer”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (“summer”), Welsh haf (“summer”), Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”),
Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-, “summer”), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn, “summer”), Northern Kurdish havîn (“summer”), Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn, “summer”).

cog

(countable, fashion) Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.


henna

henna (nominative singular)
henny (genitive singular)
hennie (dative singular)
hennę (accusative singular)
henną (instrumental singular)
hennie (locative singular)
henno (singular vocative)

Internationalism; compare English henna, French henné, German Henna, ultimately from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ), probably from Middle Persian hndʾd (*hannāy-).

Lawsonia inermis
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weave

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Saterland Frisian weeuwe, West Frisian weve, Dutch weven, German weben, Danish væve, Swedish väva, Norwegian Nynorsk veva, Icelandic vefa.

der

what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

(cosmetics) Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.


spring

en-noun

spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)

Arlington Springs Man
Beijing Spring
Berber Spring
ColdSpring
Croatian Spring
Damascus Spring
Operation Spring Awakening
Operation Spring Cleanup
Operation Spring of Youth
Prague Spring
Spring Palace
Spring of Nations
Springbal
Springfest
The Spring Offensive
spring

From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lente, lentin, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

ааԥын

season between winter and summer in temperate climates

(countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.


finger

Sranan Tongo: finga

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

sormi

something similar in function to a finger

(fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.


wing

From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.

gl

"wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">vængi</i> (“ship's cabin”)

der

They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him

2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics):

(slang, MLE) Short for prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.

prison wing

A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.


son

head

侖, 倫, 崙, 󱏟, 󰅬, 𣗾, 𣘈, 𪳔, 𧹪, 𪿽, 󱠟

vi-noun

侖, 倫, 崙, 󱏟, 󰅬, 𣗾, 𣘈, 𪳔, 𧹪, 𪿽, 󱠟

(classifier thỏi, cây (“lipstick”)) son • (侖, 倫, 崙, 󱏟, 󰅬, 𣗾, 𣘈, 𪳔, 𧹪, 𪿽, 󱠟)

thỏi (classifier)
侖 (CJK)
倫 (CJK)
崙 (CJK)
𣗾 (CJK)
𣘈 (CJK)
𪳔 (CJK)
𧹪 (CJK)
𪿽 (CJK)

This word had initial *k-r- in Old Vietnamese.


galaxy

→ Swahili: galaksi

From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).

der

Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.

2016, Reyna Young, Hanover Falls, page 42:

Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.

2017, Rebekah L. Purdy, Incriminating Dating:

She hurriedly said that she found an^([sic]) faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.

(fashion, design) Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background.


make

[…] nunca faço uma make completa, escolho sempre as coisas mais básicas, e só tive uma embalagem de base na vida.

2023 April 1, Gisela Casimiro, Estendais, Leya, →ISBN:

[…] I never do a full face of makeup, I always choose the most basic things, and I've only had one bottle of foundation in my life.

(Brazil, informal) makeup (cosmetics and colorants applied to the skin)


straight

en-adj

straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)

straighter (comparative)
straightest (superlative)

→ Japanese: ストレート

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed

der

The shirts only come in straight sizes, not in plus sizes.

shopping at a straight-sized store


cut

en-noun

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

leikkaus

notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging

(fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.


laser

pl-noun

laser m inan (related adjective laserowy)

laserowy (adjective)
laser (nominative singular)
lasery (nominative plural)
lasera (genitive singular)
laserów (genitive plural)
laserowi (dative singular)
laserom (dative plural)
laser (accusative singular)
lasery (accusative plural)
laserem (instrumental singular)
laserami (instrumental plural)
laserze (locative singular)
laserach (locative plural)
laserze (singular vocative)
lasery (plural vocative)

(cosmetics) therapeutic or cosmetic procedure performed with a laser


fluid

fluid (nominative singular)
fluidy (nominative plural)
fluidu (genitive singular)
fluidów (genitive plural)
fluidowi (dative singular)
fluidom (dative plural)
fluid (accusative singular)
fluidy (accusative plural)
fluidem (instrumental singular)
fluidami (instrumental plural)
fluidzie (locative singular)
fluidach (locative plural)
fluidzie (singular vocative)
fluidy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English fluid, French fluide, German Fluid, ultimately from Latin fluidus.

(cosmetics) foundation (cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture)


base

en-noun

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

acid

antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

perusvoide

cosmetics: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform


base

Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


base

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


beaver

beaver (countable and uncountable, plural beavers)

The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.

(countable) A beard or a bearded person.

Referring to a beard.
A beard or a bearded person.


flash

flash (countable and uncountable, plural flashes)

→ Catalan: flaix

→ Polish: flesz

In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).


far

head

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

farı (accusative definite)
farlar (plural)


powder

en-noun

powder (countable and uncountable, plural powders)

Tok Pisin: paura
→ Rotokas: paora

→ Hindi: पाउडार (pāuḍār)

→ Maori: paura

→ Burmese: ပေါင်ဒါ (paungda)

→ Swahili: poda

→ Urdu: پاؤُڈَر (pāuḍar)

From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize.

She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.

(cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.


beard

PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart). Cognate further to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá): the word may date to Proto-Indo-European as *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Doublet of barb.

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.


beard

en-verb

beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)

beards (present singular third-person)
bearding (participle present)
bearded (participle past)
bearded (past)

Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?

1765, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:

No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...

1943 December 6, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby:

. . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.

1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92:

(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.


edit

Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.

The Outnet will release a high-summer edit of 17 exclusive, limited-edition items including a Eugenia Kim fedora ($175.)

2015 June 17, Alison S. Cohn, “Shopping Events and Sales This Week in New York”, in The New York Times:

The Loose Women star, 33, took to Instagram yesterday (May 8) to announce her latest clothing edit.

2023 May 9, Melisha Kaur, “Stacey Solomon's latest In The Style range has got us dreaming of summer”, in Daily Mirror:

Thankfully, fellow new mum Ashley James has released the ultimate summer edit with clothing brand Tu that’s not only affordable, but was chosen with postpartum bodies in mind […]

2023 July 7, Faith Richardson, “Ashley James’ new Tu edit has style buys from £6 to support postpartum bodies”, in OK!:

(fashion) A range of products related by theme or purpose.


袜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːd): semantic 衣 + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

Han compound

The hairpin is long, following her twisted wig; The mò is slim, matching her waist.

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Chāi cháng zhú huán bì, mò xiǎo chèn yāoshēn.

釵長逐鬟髲，袜小稱腰身。

钗长逐鬟髲，袜小称腰身。

(fashion) An undershirt or underbodice worn in pre-modern China.


proto

[…] attending various fabric trade shows across the country and internationally; reviewing protos (prototypes) and strike-offs; approving final designs; and communicating with overseas mills.

2013, Lisa Springsteel, Becoming a Fashion Designer:

(informal, fashion) A prototype of a design.


黛

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯːɡs): phonetic 代 (OC *l'ɯːɡs) + semantic 黑 (“black”)

Han compound

(historical) a dark pigment used by women in ancient times to paint their eyebrows


slash

Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.


slash

en-verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

slashes (present singular third-person)
slashing (participle present)
slashed (participle past)
slashed (past)

(fashion) To create slashes in a garment.

To cut or attempt to cut
To create slashes in a garment.


apron

id-noun

apron (plural apron-apron, first-person possessive apronku, second-person possessive apronmu, third-person possessive apronnya)

apron-apron (plural)
apronku (first-person possessive)
apronmu (possessive second-person)
apronnya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, borrowed from English apron.

(fashion) an article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.


hype

en-adj

hype (comparative more hype, superlative most hype)

more hype (comparative)
most hype (superlative)


hype

nl-noun

hype c (plural hypes, diminutive hypeje n)

hypes (plural)
hypeje (diminutive neuter)


perfume

en-noun

perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.

គន្ធរស

kŏənthĕəʼrŭəh

The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.

2014 March 7, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 13, page 30:

(cosmetics) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.


perfume

(cosmetics) perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)


loo

From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf.

Loo Mask. An half Mask.

a. 1685, Mary Evelyn, “The Fop-dictionary”, in Mundus Muliebris, page 18:

(fashion, obsolete) A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.


ink

→ Japanese: インク (inku)

→ Korean: 잉크 (ingkeu)

→ Telugu: ఇంకి (iṅki)

→ Welsh: inc

From Middle English ynke, from Old French enque, from Latin encaustum (“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston, “burned-in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καίω (kaíō, “burn”). In this sense, displaced native Old English blæc (“ink”, literally “black”).

ncog

you don't dip your pen in the company's ink

to get ink

The TSA has been getting a lot of ink lately.

[Judith] Hope […] has been getting ink by the barrelful with her regular interviews quoting conversations with the first lady, on subjects ranging from Senate ambitions to summer and post-White House living arrangements.


rouge

en-noun

rouge (countable and uncountable, plural rouges)

Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

(chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.


rouge

rougen (definite singular)
rougar (indefinite plural)
rougane (definite plural)

From French rouge (“red”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Doublet of raud.


rouge

From French rouge (“red”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Doublet of röd.

(cosmetics) rouge (red or pink makeup (for the cheeks))


diagonal

backslash

antonym(s) of “oblique punctuation mark”

/daɪˈæɡənəl/

/dɑɪˈæɡ.ə.nəl/

From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”), from διά (diá, “across”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).

диагонал

something forming or resembling a diagonal line

Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:

(fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.


moustache

Used in English since the 16th century. Via Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.

A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.

1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”, in The Adventures of Gerard:

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.

1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:

Ivan, the confidential man with the scar and the moustaches, came out of the house like a cannon ball, and came racing across the lawn to Valentin like a dog to his master.

1910 September 3, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC:

Small, well-knit, fair, he sat stroking his slight blond moustache and looking at her with kindly, almost tender eyes; but he left it to his sister and the others to draw her out and fit her into the pattern.

1913 October, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

Crabbe caught the eye of the oboist, an ancient man with dignified moustaches, and mimed that they were going round to the front, to watch the real thing, the shadows.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 555:

A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.

2013, Peter Gasston, The Modern Web: Multi-device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 102:

(computing, informal) A curly bracket, { or }.


vinotherapy

Therapeutic treatment of the skin using wine and grapes.


imperial

en-adj

imperial (comparative more imperial, superlative most imperial)

more imperial (comparative)
most imperial (superlative)

From Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperiālis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -ālis, from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”). Displaced Old English cāserlīċ.

der

Imperial pale ale, Imperial IPA, Imperial pilsner, Imperial milk stout, Imperial lager, Imperial mead

(in particular, of alcohol) Stronger than typical. (Derived from the name of Russian Imperial stout, a strong dark beer.)


imperial

en-noun

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.

(paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.

There are who say the sonnet's meted maze
Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,
Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers
Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.

1816, John Freeman Milward Dovaston, The Sonnet:


tattoo

tattoo (countable and uncountable, plural tattoos)

From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.

(military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.


alcohol

→ Basque: alkohol

→ Quechua: alkul

From Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥū́l), from Arabic اَلْكُحْل (al-kuḥl, “kohl”).


chaste

en-adj

chaste (comparative chaster, superlative chastest)

chaster (comparative)
chastest (superlative)

From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).

The chaste style of most early modern novels is elegant but intensely boring, particularly for teenagers too inexperienced to effectively read between the lines.

Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly

(in art, fashion, etc.) Synonym of austere, plain, unextravagant, particularly demure, sexually discreet.


limousine

→ Dutch: limousine

→ English: limousine

→ German: Limousine

desc

→ Portuguese: limusine, limusina, limousine

→ Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: limuzin

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.

(fashion) traditional woolen cloak from Haute-Vienne


vous

vous (nominative singular)
vousy (nominative plural)
vousu (genitive singular)
vousů (genitive plural)
vousu (dative singular)
vousům (dative plural)
vous (accusative singular)
vousy (accusative plural)
vouse (singular vocative)
vousy (plural vocative)
vousu (locative singular)
vousech (locative plural)
vousem (instrumental singular)
vousy (instrumental plural)


sheath

From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted).
The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.

nb...

chethe, scǽð, scaþ, schede, schete, scheth, schethe, seaþ, seeth, seth, sethe, shæþ, shede, sheethe, sheith, (Southwest) ssethe, sseþe, (early forms) scæðe, scaþe, seaþe


royal

en-adj

royal (comparative royaler or royaller, superlative royalest or royallest)

royaler (comparative)
royaller (comparative)
royalest (superlative)
royallest (superlative)

From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.

mbretëror

of or relating to a monarch or his family

royal mast;  royal sail

(nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.

röijeli-

nautical: of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails


royal

(paper) A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.

in ten days after we spoke the Solon, so rapid was his recovery, that, from lying helpless and almost hopeless in his berth, he was at the mast-heId, furling a royal.

1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:

(nautical, sailing) In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.

(card games) In auction bridge, a royal spade.


modello

it-noun

modello m (plural modelli, feminine modella, diminutive modellìno or (with specific meanings) modellétto, pejorative modellàccio, derogatory modellùccio)

modelli (plural)
modella (feminine)
modellìno (diminutive)
modellétto (diminutive)
modellàccio (pejorative)
modellùccio (derogatory)

→ English: modello

→ Greek: μοντέλο (montélo)


pant

(fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).


muška

muška (nominative singular)
mušky (nominative plural)
mušky (genitive singular)
mušek (genitive plural)
mušce (dative singular)
muškám (dative plural)
mušku (accusative singular)
mušky (accusative plural)
muško (singular vocative)
mušky (plural vocative)
mušce (locative singular)
muškách (locative plural)
muškou (instrumental singular)
muškami (instrumental plural)


goatee

From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix), referring to the tuft of hair on the chin of many domestic goats.

Coordinate term: soul patch

One person sports a goatee, the hair refusing to grow on the sides of his physiognomy; the chin of another is as smooth as a baby's cheek,—he contents himself with a modest moustache and a faint attempt at an imperial; while a few of the upper classes rejoice in all the varieties.

1845 February, “Editors' Table”, in The Williams Monthly Miscellany, volume 1, number 8, page 367:

The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.

1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 44:

"Yes, sir, behind you. He is a man of middle size, rather inclined to shortness. He is old, over sixty, with white hair, curved nose and a white, small beard of the variety that is called goatee."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.


lo

a girl who regularly dresses in lolita fashion

lo娘

(neologism, mostly in compounds) Lolita fashion


лезвие

ru-noun+

ле́звие • (lézvije) n inan (genitive ле́звия, nominative plural ле́звия, genitive plural ле́звий)

ле́звие (canonical)
lézvije (romanization)
ле́звия (genitive)
ле́звия (nominative plural)
ле́звий (genitive plural)
ле́звие (nominative singular)
ле́звия (nominative plural)
ле́звия (genitive singular)
ле́звий (genitive plural)
ле́звию (dative singular)
ле́звиям (dative plural)
ле́звие (accusative singular)
ле́звия (accusative plural)
ле́звием (instrumental singular)
ле́звиями (instrumental plural)
ле́звии (prepositional singular)
ле́звиях (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic лезъ (lezŭ, “point of a blade”). Further etymology is unclear. Trubachyov proposes that the term came from honey hunting lexicon and is related to лезть (leztʹ, “to climb”).


Use as a multiplication sign is usually attributed to English mathematician William Oughtred.

Russ Millions × Tion Wayne

BAPE × Stüssy

2022 July 23, Gargi Harjai, “Where to buy the John Richmond × Playboy collection? Price, release date, and more explored”, in Sportskeeda (in English):

(music, fashion, etc.) Used to denote collaboration in the design, execution or branding of a piece.


mascara

en-noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

/ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/

apply mascara

put on mascara

mascara runs

mascara smudges

With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:

A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.


mascara

nl-noun

mascara f or m (plural mascara's, diminutive mascaraatje n)

mascara's (plural)
mascaraatje (diminutive neuter)


hogar

(historical) a piercing; a hole made in the body so that jewelry can be worn through it


lipstick

en-noun

lipstick (usually uncountable, plural lipsticks)

→ Dutch: lipstick

→ Bengali: লিপস্টিক (liposṭik)

→ Hindi: लिपस्टिक (lipasṭik)

→ Japanese: リップスティック (rippusutikku)

→ Korean: 립스틱 (ripseutik)

→ Lao: ລິບສະຕິກ (lip sa tik)

→ Malay: lipstik

→ Thai: ลิปสติก (líp-sà-dtìk)

Are you wearing any lipstick today?

In fact, I just saw the movie Shirley Valentine (for the umpteenth time!), and couldn't even look at the adult Marjorie Majors without seeing Patsy and her boofed up hair and red lipstick and long cigarette holder.

2003 August 31, TammyM, “Re: OT: Penis Casino; free Viagra!”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet):

I'd like three lipsticks in this shade.

She darkens up her eyebrows with it and then runs a tube of pink lipstick over her mouth. She immediately wipes it off with the palm of her hand. She should have black lipstick. A true ninja woman would wear black lipstick.

2021 December 27, Linda MorningStar, Destiny's Wavering Road, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 164:

Joya was what they called a Lipstick Lesbian. Without wandering too far through the minefield that gay culture can be for the moderately indoctrinated, let stand the observation that this thriving local fauna (The Lipsticks, that is) struck some observers as representing a step up (or forward) in the social evolution of female homosexuality.

2006, Stephen Siciliano, The Sidewalk Smokers Club, page 82:

lipstick lesbian
lipstick lesbian#English

(countable, slang) Short for lipstick lesbian.


lipstick

nl-noun

lipstick m (plural lipsticks, diminutive lipstickje n)

lipsticks (plural)
lipstickje (diminutive neuter)


mosca

it-noun

mosca f (plural mosche, diminutive moschétta or moschìna or moschìno m or moschettìna, augmentative (uncommon) moscóna, pejorative moscàccia)

mosche (plural)
moschétta (diminutive)
moschìna (diminutive)
moschìno (diminutive masculine)
moschettìna (diminutive)
moscóna (augmentative uncommon)
moscàccia (pejorative)

From Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare Spanish mosca.

(by extension, figurative):
(historical, cosmetics) beauty spot


LC

en-noun

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

(fashion on the Internet) Initialism of legit check.


sax

Japanese: サックス (sakkusu)

Clipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.

sax:

(fashion) a shade of colour similar to sky blue


emo

emo (countable and uncountable, plural emos)

(countable) A person associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.


emo

en-adj

emo (comparative more emo, superlative most emo)

more emo (comparative)
most emo (superlative)

(often derogatory) Emotional; sensitive.

Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.


blush

en-noun

blush (countable and uncountable, plural blushes)

From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.
Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen (“to blush”). Compare also Old English blysian (“to burn; blaze”), Dutch blozen (“to blush”), Danish blusse (“to blush”), Old Norse blys (“torch”), Danish blus (“blaze”).

inh

The same rules that apply to face powder apply to powder blush, since neither contains water. Cream blush, however, should be replaced after a year. To prolong the life of any blush, clean your blush brush regularly and store the product in a dry place.

2016, Sana Passricha, “Keep or Toss: The Shelflife of Your Beauty Treasures,” iDIVA, 22 July, 2016,_(http://www.idiva.com/news-style-beauty/keep-or-toss-the-shelf-life-of-your-beauty-treasures/16072264)

(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.


blush

C’est mon petit boulot, ma tune, mes clopes, mes expressos, mes virées nocturnes, ma lingerie fine, mon Guerlain, mes folies de blush, mes livres de poche, mon cinoche.

1999, Anna Gavalda, “The Opel Touch”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part:

blush (makeup used to redden the cheeks)


chic

en-adj

chic (comparative chicer or more chic, superlative chicest or most chic)

chicer (comparative)
more chic (comparative)
chicest (superlative)
most chic (superlative)

Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably derived from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). The word is akin to Dutch schielijk (“hasty”), schikken (“to arrange”) and Old English sċēon (“to happen”).

cog

Mrs. Hominy, sir, is the lady of Major Hominy, one of our chicest spirits; and belongs Toe^([sic]) one of our most aristocratic families.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “From which It will be Seen that Martin Became a Lion on His Own Account. Together with the Reason Why.”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 277:

As he wisht to micks with the very chicest sosaity, and git the best of infmation about this country, Munseer Jools of coarse went and lodgd in Lester Square— […]

1847, Je—mes Pl—sh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Crinoline”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XIII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 72, column 2:

There are chic Cercles; or rather, there is only one, the Jockey Club. Why? Nobody can tell. Other Cercles are just as select, as exclusive, as well constituted, but not so chic. […] [T]he Jockey Club is so extremely chic, that many people consider the fact of belonging to it not as an ordinary circumstance, but as a dignity.

1870 July, “Parisine”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, volume XVIII, number CIII, London: [Printed by William Clowes and Sons], →OCLC, pages 13–14:

What is chic may, in a sense, be fashionable, but what is fashionable cannot be chic. Anybody can wear and do what is fashionable. It is not fashionable unless a lot of people do it, and have it on—until, in three words that grate rather upon the ear, in this connection, it is common. Chic cannt be common.

1877 September, A. de F., “Chic”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume LI, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […] ; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers; Paris: Galignani, →OCLC, page 118:

The hair is actually cut about the ears like that of the quaint Dutch children from the little Island of Martken. This style of coiffure gives to the grown child a chic appearance and naive insouciance that is very fascinating. The hair is worn, either parted on the side or in the middle, and is held with a jeweled band or a fillet of ribbon which is most effective. It seems a fashion not likely to be adopted to any great extent by really smart women, although La Valliere, the chic little Parisian actress, is fascinating in this style of head-dress, […]

1915 February, “Told in the Boudoir: Concerning Coiffures in General and in Particular”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 3, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

For Murray Marks he [Richard Norman Shaw] designed a chic Oxford Street shopfront for the display of 'pots' (1875–6), […]

2010, Andrew Saint, “South and North”, in Richard Norman Shaw, revised (2nd) edition, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

Spanish Manchego cheese seems so much chicer than cheddar, but either pairs well with almonds, dried fruit, and rice crackers.

2013, Jenna Mahoney, “Do Some Semi-homemade”, in Mary Hern, editor, Small Apartment Hacks: 101 Ingenious DIY Solutions for Living, Organizing, and Entertaining, Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Entertaining), page 163:

أَنِيق

elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish


rep

en-noun

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

rep sneakers

Overall, David is cagey when talking about reps, like someone might be while talking about an ex. That's understandable. But I wonder if Soulsfeng will ever reach the notoriety that David the rep seller did.

2018 October 1, Alice Hines, “Meeting David, the God of Counterfeit Sneakers”, in Highsnobiety, archived from the original on 2024-03-17:

The forum is a democratised, judgement-free zone in which people share a love of high quality replicas or 'reps', where members are friendly and even supportive. They help one another to find the best sellers and sites to buy from, while discussing discrepancies between retail items and their counterfeit counterparts – from stitching and logos, to details and finishes.

2020 January 16, Kish Lal, “Why this community of streetwear fanatics only buy fakes”, in Dazed, London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-04:


botanical

But where vodka stays neutral, gin is infused with botanicals — a witch’s pantry of roots, berries, herbs, dried fruits and spices — dominated by the piney, breezy aroma of juniper berries.

2007 May 2, Eric Asimov, “No, Really, It Was Tough: 4 People, 80 Martinis”, in New York Times:

(cosmetics, cooking, medicine) Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source


exfoliation

exfoliation (countable and uncountable, plural exfoliations)

From Latin exfoliare (to remove leaves).

(cosmetics) The removal of a layer of dead skin, as in cosmetic preparation.

去角質

the removal of a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation


fascia

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.

der

(ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.


foundation

en-noun

foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)

From Middle English foundacioun, fundacioun, from Old French fondacion, from Latin fundātiō (“founding, foundation”).

(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.


silhouette

Borrowed from French silhouette, from the name of Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), a French politician. His surname, in turn, is (gallicized) Basque, from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, modern Basque Zulueta, from the local plural (see -ak) stern of zulo (“hole, cave”).

A-line is a classic silhouette for dresses and skirts.

(fashion) The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.


colonia

From agua de Colonia, from French eau de Cologne, ultimately from Latin Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinēnsium, Cologne, the current city in Germany, and cognate of colony.


dieselpunk

Coordinate term: steampunk

In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...

2002 November 20, Charlie Stross, “Re: What "steampunk" genre?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

[…] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]

2007, Sean Demory, quoted in Brian McTavish, "Kansas City writer, artist publish digital comic book for cell phones", in The Kansas City Star, 2007 July 25, page F3

BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.

2010 March 19, Teresa Lott, “Re: I hate steampunk...”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with the technology, culture, and aesthetics of the period of history beginning in the interbellum between World War I and World War II and ending around the 1950s (known as the "diesel era" within the dieselpunk community).


track

→ Kashubian: trak (Canada)

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

gloss

"line, row, series"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">trek</i> (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)

cog

(fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.


slap

en-noun

slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)

From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:

If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.

Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)


لحية

ar-noun

لِحْيَة • (liḥya) f (plural لِحًى (liḥan))

لِحْيَة (canonical)
liḥya (romanization)
لِحًى (plural)
لِحْيَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
لِحْيَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
لِحْيَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite informal plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite informal plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct informal plural)
لِحًى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite nominative plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite nominative plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct nominative plural)
لِحًى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite plural)
اللِّحَى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite plural)
لِحَى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct plural)
لِحًى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form genitive indefinite plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite genitive plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct genitive plural)


kreska

pl-noun

kreska f (diminutive kreseczka, augmentative krecha, related adjective kreskowy)

kreseczka (diminutive)
krecha (augmentative)
kreskowy (adjective)
kreska (nominative singular)
kreski (nominative plural)
kreski (genitive singular)
kresek (genitive plural)
kresce (dative singular)
kreskom (dative plural)
kreskę (accusative singular)
kreski (accusative plural)
kreską (instrumental singular)
kreskami (instrumental plural)
kresce (locative singular)
kreskach (locative plural)
kresko (singular vocative)
kreski (plural vocative)

(cosmetics) wing (cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point)


sideburns

en-noun

sideburns pl (normally plural, singular sideburn)

Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.

named-after

Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

bakkebaarde

facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin


sequin

Borrowed from French sequin, from Italian zecchino, from zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of zecchin.

der

His ideas of music-hall costumes had never gone beyond short skirts, a swirl of lace, and glittering sequins; but Miss Antonia had expressed herself on that subject in no uncertain terms.

1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter CVII, in Of Human Bondage:

(fashion) A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing.

пайети

sparkling spangle used for decoration of ornate clothing


chou

From French chou (“cabbage”); compare French pâte à choux (“choux pastry”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

Medium sized chous, or rosettes of the ribbon finish the trimming at bottom of chest opening, and at the waist points back and front.

1891, Locomotive Engineers Journal, volume 25, page 1146:

(fashion) A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's clothing.


blouse

→ Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)

→ Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)

→ Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)

desc

→ Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)

→ Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More at blee, fold.

bloes

an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt

(fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.

(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.

工作罩衫

military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket


spa

spa (beauty treatments designed to moisturise and nourish the skin; also: cosmetics used for such treatments)

spa (health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring)


spa

(postpositive) spa (beauty treatments designed to moisturise and nourish the skin; also: cosmetics used for such treatments)


cosmetic

From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), from κοσμητής (kosmētḗs, “orderer, director, decorator”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).

Any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin, e.g. lipstick, eyeshadow, eyeliner; makeup.

козметика

any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin

beauty products

substances enhance external color or texture


makeup

en-noun

makeup (usually uncountable, plural makeups)

⇒ Portuguese: make

She is wearing a lot of makeup.

(countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.

grimering

cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance


fierce

en-adj

fierce (comparative fiercer or more fierce, superlative fiercest or most fierce)

fiercer (comparative)
more fierce (comparative)
fiercest (superlative)
most fierce (superlative)

From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”).

Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce.

(US, LGBTQ slang, fashion) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.


editorial

/ˌɛdɪˈtɔɹiəl/

/ˌɛdɪˈtɔːɹɪəl/

(fashion) Appropriate for high fashion magazines.


halo

For the second noun sense, the monitor lizard's timidity likened to cowardice.


cummerbund

German: Kummerbund

Borrowed from Hindustani کمر بند / कमरबंद (kamarband), from Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband), from کمر (kamar, “waist”) + بند (band, “band”).

refn

By David Ring, from the collection of the ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen (Fashion Museum of the Province of Antwerp) in Antwerp, Belgium.

From the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, UK.

All this splendor was set off by a black shawl kummerbund, and blackish upper vest of the cloth called keem-khab, embroidered with large gold leaves. The vest was made like those of all other Mahomedans, but the lower part of it stuck out as you see painted in Indian prints, and altogether destroyed his figure; and the kummerbund was large and heavy.

1809 March 6, “Embassy to Cabul, No. II. Description of the Introduction to His Majesty the King of Cabul, of the British Attendants on Mr. Elphinstone, in His Embassy to the King of that Country.”, in The Literary Panorama, volume VIII, London: Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, […], for C. Taylor, […], published November 1810, →OCLC, column 1329:

Bounty cloathing is to be allowed, in the firſt inſtance, to the corps of Ordnance Drivers, according to the uſage of the Service, and with the bounty cloathing each individual is to be ſupplied on the formation of the corps with a blue turban and a red cummerbund at the coſt of the Government. […] the uniform turban and cummerbund to be afterwards provided by individuals, and kept up at their own expence.

1812, chapter V, in Abstract of the General Orders & Regulations in Force in the Honorable East-India Company’s Army, on the Bengal Establishment, Completed to the 1st February, 1812; […], Calcutta: Printed by R. W. Walker, […], →OCLC, page 196:

[W]e observe both Hindoo and Mahomedan guarding most consciously against solar heat, as well as cold. The turban and cummerbund meet our eye at every step:—the former, to defend the head from the direct rays of a powerful sun; the latter, apparently, for the purpose of preserving the important viscera of the abdomen from the deleterious impressions of cold. This [cummerbund] is certainly a most valuable part of their dress; and one that is highly deserving of imitation. […] In situations where atmospherical vicissitudes are sudden, a fine shawl round the waist forms an excellent cummerbund, and should never be neglected, especially by those who have been some time in the country, or whose bowels are in any degree tender.

1818, James Johnson, “Dress”, in The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions. […], 2nd greatly enlarged edition, London: Sold by T. and G. Underwood, [et al.]; printed for the author, by Mottley and Harrison, […], →OCLC, page 384:

Richard Middlemas, as the Begum's general or Buckshee, walked nearest to her litter, in a dress as magnificent in itself as it was remote from all European costume, being that of a Banka, or Indian courtier. […] The vest was of gold brocade, with a cummerband, or sash, around his waist, corresponding to his turban.

1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume II (The Surgeon’s Daughter), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 353:

Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.

1927, F[anny] E[mily Farr] Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, →OL:

Next came a domeshaped sukhpal (palanquin), its silver plated pole being borne by eight sturdy troopers wearing red flowing kurtas, silk kamarbunds, and silk dungarees.

1976, Tapan Ghosh, The Adventures of Shivaji, page 140:

She saw dresses in every color of the rainbow; she saw lime green cummerbunds and pink cummerbunds and plaid ones.

1994, L[isa] J[ane] Smith, The Chase (The Forbidden Game; II), New York, N.Y.: Archway Paperback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 99:

The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.

2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women: Learning How to Love Them”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2016-05-10:

(fashion) A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Victoria and Albert Museum


gloss

Unadapted borrowing from English (lip) gloss.


highlight

(cosmetics) A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.


dowdy

en-verb

dowdy (third-person singular simple present dowdies, present participle dowdying, simple past and past participle dowdied)

dowdies (present singular third-person)
dowdying (participle present)
dowdied (participle past)
dowdied (past)

Late 16th century. Origin uncertain: probably literally “little poorly dressed woman,” formed from doue, “poorly dressed woman.”
Possibly also related to the Scots dow, meaning to "fade".

Topping the apples with squares of dough allowed steam to escape during baking, preventing the apples from overcooking. Dowdying the crust partway through created the dessert's sweet finish.

2021, America's Test Kitchen, The Complete Cook’s Country TV Show Cookbook, page 743:

(cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.


patchouli

en-noun

patchouli (countable and uncountable, plural patchoulis)

From Tamil பச்சை (paccai, “green”) + இலை (ilai, “leaf”).

Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.

Well she looks at you so coolly / And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea / She comes in incense and patchouli

1976, Peter Wood, Al Stewart (lyrics and music), “Year of the Cat”, in Year of the Cat:

The oil or perfume made from these plants.

patsuli

the oil or perfume made from these plants


pastel

pl-noun

pastel m inan (related adjective pastelowy)

pastelowy (adjective)
pastel (nominative singular)
pastele (nominative plural)
pastelu (genitive singular)
pasteli (genitive plural)
pastelów (genitive plural)
pastelowi (dative singular)
pastelom (dative plural)
pastel (accusative singular)
pastele (accusative plural)
pastelem (instrumental singular)
pastelami (instrumental plural)
pastelu (locative singular)
pastelach (locative plural)
pastelu (singular vocative)
pastele (plural vocative)

(cosmetics) eye shadow (cosmetic in the form of a light powder for eyelids or cheeks)


fashionista

From fashion + -ista. Compare earlier Sandinista, Peronista, Guardianista.

Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.

2008 July 17, “High Style: Are you a Porter person?”, in Toronto Star, page L1:

A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor.

диза́йнер

a person who creates or promotes high fashion


garish

en-adj

garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)

more garish (comparative)
most garish (superlative)

Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.

The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.

"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.

1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:

Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish.

2003 August 10, Ken Keeler, “The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings”, in Futurama, season 5, episode 16 (television production), Fox Broadcasting Company:

She also said that Thameslink trains were deliberately garish, so as to lure drivers stuck on the M1, which runs alongside the line around Radlett.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 57:

Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

ярък

overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste


vintage

Unadapted borrowing from English vintage.


defile

head

defile (definite accusative defileyi, plural defileler)

defileyi (accusative definite)
defileler (plural)
defile (nominative singular)
defileler (nominative plural)
defileyi (accusative definite singular)
defileleri (accusative definite plural)
defileye (dative singular)
defilelere (dative plural)
defilede (locative singular)
defilelerde (locative plural)
defileden (ablative singular)
defilelerden (ablative plural)
defilenin (genitive singular)
defilelerin (genitive plural)
defilem (first-person nominative singular)
defilelerim (first-person nominative singular)
defilen (nominative second-person singular)
defilelerin (nominative second-person singular)
defilesi (nominative singular third-person)
defileleri (nominative singular third-person)
defilemiz (first-person nominative plural)
defilelerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
defileniz (nominative plural second-person)
defileleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
defileleri (nominative plural third-person)
defilemi (accusative definite first-person singular)
defilelerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
defileni (accusative definite second-person singular)
defilelerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
defilesini (accusative definite singular third-person)
defilelerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
defilemizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
defilelerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
defilenizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
defilelerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
defilelerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
defileme (dative first-person singular)
defilelerime (dative first-person singular)
defilene (dative second-person singular)
defilelerine (dative second-person singular)
defilesine (dative singular third-person)
defilelerine (dative singular third-person)
defilemize (dative first-person plural)
defilelerimize (dative first-person plural)
defilenize (dative plural second-person)
defilelerinize (dative plural second-person)
defilelerine (dative plural third-person)
defilemde (first-person locative singular)
defilelerimde (first-person locative singular)
defilende (locative second-person singular)
defilelerinde (locative second-person singular)
defilesinde (locative singular third-person)
defilelerinde (locative singular third-person)
defilemizde (first-person locative plural)
defilelerimizde (first-person locative plural)
defilenizde (locative plural second-person)
defilelerinizde (locative plural second-person)
defilelerinde (locative plural third-person)
defilemden (ablative first-person singular)
defilelerimden (ablative first-person singular)
defilenden (ablative second-person singular)
defilelerinden (ablative second-person singular)
defilesinden (ablative singular third-person)
defilelerinden (ablative singular third-person)
defilemizden (ablative first-person plural)
defilelerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
defilenizden (ablative plural second-person)
defilelerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
defilelerinden (ablative plural third-person)
defilemin (first-person genitive singular)
defilelerimin (first-person genitive singular)
defilenin (genitive second-person singular)
defilelerinin (genitive second-person singular)
defilesinin (genitive singular third-person)
defilelerinin (genitive singular third-person)
defilemizin (first-person genitive plural)
defilelerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
defilenizin (genitive plural second-person)
defilelerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
defilelerinin (genitive plural third-person)

A fashion parade where models walk on stage to promote clothes.


undershirt

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undershirt.wav

An undershirt absorbs moisture from your body and equalizes your body temperature.

2009, Peter Jungk, Crossing the Hudson, page 10:

(fashion) An undergarment worn beneath a shirt, often collarless and sleeveless.


pike

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English pīc (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.
The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, Danish pig, and possibly Old Irish pīk. It is a doublet of pique.
The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.
The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.
The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

cog

Thus the ſtatute of king Edward IV, which forbad the fine gentlemen of thoſe times (under the degree of a lord) to wear pikes upon their ſhoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was a law that ſavoured of oppreſſion; becauſe, however ridiculous the faſhion then in uſe might appear, the reſtraining of it by pecuniary penalties could ſerve no purpoſe of common utility.

1765, William Blackstone, “Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 122:

During the earlier part of this period, the long pike disappeared from the shoe, but in the later part it returned in greater longitude than ever. So highly valued indeed was this singular piece of extravagance […] that by a sumptuary statute of 1463, none but lords were allowed to wear shoes or boots having pikes more than two inches long.

1861, Charles Macfarlane, Thomas Thomson, “History of Society. From the Accession of Henry IV. (A.D. 1399) to the Death of Richard III. (A.D. 1485).”, in Thomas Thomson, editor, The Comprehensive History of England; Civil and Military, Religious, Intellectual, and Social, from the Earliest Period to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt, rev. edition, volume I, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 686, column 1:

(fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.

(historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.


panache

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, itself from Italian pennacchio.


piercing

en-adj

piercing (comparative more piercing, superlative most piercing)

more piercing (comparative)
most piercing (superlative)

Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter.


piercing

piercing (nominative singular)
piercingu (genitive singular)
piercingowi (dative singular)
piercing (accusative singular)
piercingiem (instrumental singular)
piercingu (locative singular)
piercingu (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English piercing.

ubor

piercing (jewellery worn through a hole in the skin or tongue)


piercing

piercing (indefinite nominative singular)


piercing

head

piercing (definite accusative piercingi, plural piercingler)

piercingi (accusative definite)
piercingler (plural)


pogonotrophy

/ˌpoʊɡəˈnɑtɹəfi/

The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.


armhole

From Middle English arme hole, armehole, arm hole, arm-hole, armhole, arm-hool(e), armole, harmehole; equivalent to arm + hole.

armpit

cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder

He... violently pull'd off her Riding-Hood, and tore it at the Arm Holes in pulling it off.

1731 January 15, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, page 13:

(fashion) A hole for an arm in a piece of clothing.


haute couture

Unadapted borrowing from French haute couture (“haute couture, high fashion”), from haute (“high, elegant”) + couture (“sewing”).


haute couture

English: haute couture


haute couture

Unadapted borrowing from French haute couture (“haute couture, high fashion”).

(fashion) haute couture, exclusive fashion, high fashion, high style


toggle

Of uncertain origin. Possible alteration of tug (“to pull”) + -le

(in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.


Joan

A clipped or hypochoristic form of Joanna, from Latin Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.

doublet

A grocer's wife attractd our eyes by a new-fashioned cap called a Joan.

1756, Connoisseur, number 134, page 810:

(fashion, obsolete or archaic) A kind of close-fitting cap for women popular in the mid-18th century.


Rouge

de-noun

Rouge n (strong, genitive Rouges, plural Rouges)

Rouges (genitive)
Rouges (plural)
Rouge (nominative singular)
Rouges (definite nominative plural)
Rouges (genitive singular)
Rouges (definite genitive plural)
Rouge (dative singular)
Rouges (dative definite plural)
Rouge (accusative singular)
Rouges (accusative definite plural)


cologne

en-noun

cologne (usually uncountable, plural colognes)

Short for eau de Cologne (French Eau de Cologne), the name given to the original product in 1709. The success of the original Eau de Cologne inspired many imitators and it has become a genericized trademark. See Cologne.

គន្ធរស

kŏənthĕəʼrŭəh

You stink of too much cologne.

He wore some aftershave or cologne that gave him a heavy, nasty, sweet scent.

1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 95:

A type of perfume consisting of 2-5% essential oils, 70-90% alcohol and water.


napoleon

napoleon (countable and uncountable, plural napoleons)

/nəˈpəʊlɪən/

Borrowed from French Napoléon (“given name, usually in reference to Napoleon Bonaparte”). In reference to coins, via French napoléon (“(slang) a coin that originally had the appearance of Napoleon's face in the obverse”). In reference to guns and possibly cards, in reference to Napoleon III.

bor

Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump.

2011, Robert Morgan, Lions of the West::

(fashion, obsolete) Clipping of Napoleon boot: a form of topboot worn by officers during the Napoleonic Wars.


FW

Coordinate term: SS (“spring/summer”)

FW23 collection

(fashion) Initialism of fall/winter; often followed by a year.


lolita

From the title character, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.


cosmetics

From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), from κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), an adjective of κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).

der

Preparations applied externally to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes.

In the great fishbowl that we're doing everything in it's kind of unfortunate, but the cosmetics of the thing are more important than what's accomplished — in a great many ways.

2004, Lewis Sorley, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972, page 194:

The way something looks; superficial appearance.


cosmetics

مُسْتَحْضَرَات اَلتَّجْمِيل

preparations to change or enhance the beauty


americana

→ Cebuano: amerikana (“coat; jacket”)

→ Tagalog: amerikana (“coat; jacket”)

El momento era solemne, su rictus muy serio... pero la gente lo que más comentó en redes fue otra cosa: ¡Que la americana le quedaba grande! Sí, sí. Tal cual.

2020 April 1, “Pablo Iglesias comparece en un momento histórico y todos le trolean por lo mismo”, in Mundo Deportivo:

It was a solemn moment, his wince was very serious... but the people that commented most on social networks were the opposite: Damn, that americana fits you amazingly! Yep. Just like that.

(fashion) a cloth jacket with lapels and buttons, reaching below the hip


jumps

(fashion) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.


retro

pl-adj

retro (not comparable, no derived adverb)

(fashion) retro (of or relating to the past, past times, or the way things were)


fashion plate

By turning the skirt and adding a ruffle of rhyme you would hardly recognize it as vers de societe with neatly shod feet and a fashion-plate illustration.

1917, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Confessions of a Humorist”, in Waifs and Strays:

He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters; […] he had abandoned his real calling, and taken a sub-editorial job on a women's weekly, where fashion-plates and paper patterns alternated with New England love-stories and advertisements of temperance drinks.

1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Nat Hicks's Tailor Shop, on a side street off Main. A one-story building. A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.

1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:

Today, in an age when the promotion of fashion is dominated by social media, video, and photography, fashion plates are nearly forgotten—relics of history consulted by few aside from professional costume designers and scholars of history.

2015, April Calahan, Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.


balsam

pl-noun

balsam m inan (related adjective balsamowy)

balsamowy (adjective)
balsam (nominative singular)
balsamy (nominative plural)
balsamu (genitive singular)
balsamów (genitive plural)
balsamowi (dative singular)
balsamom (dative plural)
balsam (accusative singular)
balsamy (accusative plural)
balsamem (instrumental singular)
balsamami (instrumental plural)
balsamie (locative singular)
balsamach (locative plural)
balsamie (singular vocative)
balsamy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish balsam. Compare Kashubian balzam and Slovincian balzóm.

(cosmetics, medicine, pharmacology) lotion, balm (a low-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to skin)


crème

en-noun

crème (countable and uncountable, plural crèmes)

Unadapted borrowing from French crème. Doublet of cream and crema.


SS

SS23 collection

(fashion) Initialism of spring/summer; often followed by a year.


waterline

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-waterline.wav

(cosmetics) The inner rim of the eyelid, just behind the lash line; primarily used in reference to the application of eyeliner.


LV

Coordinate term: LVMH


LV

English: LV

Coordinate term: LVMH

(fashion) Abbreviation of Louis Vuitton.


tester

pl-noun

tester m inan (related adjective testerski)

testerski (adjective)
tester (nominative singular)
testery (nominative plural)
testera (genitive singular)
testerów (genitive plural)
testerowi (dative singular)
testerom (dative plural)
tester (accusative singular)
testery (accusative plural)
testerem (instrumental singular)
testerami (instrumental plural)
testerze (locative singular)
testerach (locative plural)
testerze (singular vocative)
testery (plural vocative)

(cosmetics) tester (free sample bottle of perfume or cosmetic available in a shop for customers to try)

(cosmetics) tester (small phial of perfume or cosmetic bought to try a fragrance without the commitment of a full-size bottle)


Fu Manchu

The first book with the character was The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, from 1913.


bigote

→ Bikol Central: bigote

→ Cebuano: bigote

→ Hiligaynon: bigote

→ Kapampangan: bigoti

→ Tagalog: bigote

→ Yogad: bigote

Perhaps from German bei Gott (“by God”), because, when taking an oath, some men, once they said "by God", aimed at the upper lip with the index finger, symbolising forming the cross with the fingers and kissing it. Compare Portuguese bigode and English bigot.

moustache, mustache; moustaches, mustaches


très

Borrowed from French très. Attested in English from the 19th century. Doublet of trans.

My view is that a fraternity is nothing more than a très snob clique or caucus, but I may be wrong.

1947 January 1, Hod., “An Innocent at Large”, in Punch, volume 212, page 16, column 2:

He must look très sexy in a towel, I thought with a smile, très sexy indeed.

1983, Donna Steinberg, I Lost it All in Montreal, page 30:

I seemed to have shot up a few more inches over the last year and some of my jeans were stopping short of my ankles. Très uncool.

2002, Cathy Hopkins, White Lies and Barefaced Truths (Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise), page 212:

We have this très cool apartment, and all of the money, and Foo almost has his master’s in bio-nerdism or whatever, and I only have to go home like twice a week so the mother unit still thinks I am living there.

2010, Christopher Moore, Bite Me: A Love Story, page 17:

Dim lighting plus backrub equals très romantic, and a massage candle kills two lovebirds (Thank you, we’ll be here all week) with one stone.

2015, Cosmo’s Let’s Get Naked, page 223:

(colloquial, fashion, usually before English adjective) Very, to superior degree.


bodice

From bodies, plural of body (“upper part of a dress”).

As she knelt, too, her amber locks fell in rich ringlets about her beautiful head, her innocent bosom palpitated beneath the crimson boddice, and her timid blushes increased the effulgence of her charms.

1829 June 10 (date written), [Washington Irving], “[The Legend of Don Roderick.] The Story of Florinda.”, in Legends of the Conquest of Spain (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 3), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, published 1835, →OCLC, pages 38–39:

On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. She is wearing Tyrolese costume: the low-cut white bodice with cross-laced velvet waistcoat, the floral apron and dirndl skirt.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 1, in Crime out of Mind:

Blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or European folk costume.

cosset

blouse-like garment in European folk dress


couturier

id-noun

couturier (first-person possessive couturierku, second-person possessive couturiermu, third-person possessive couturiernya)

couturierku (first-person possessive)
couturiermu (possessive second-person)
couturiernya (possessive third-person)

Unadapted borrowing from French couturier.

ubor

a person who designs haute couture (high fashion).

a company that is owned by or employs such a person; a fashion house.


Fliege

de-noun

Fliege f (genitive Fliege, plural Fliegen)

Fliege (genitive)
Fliegen (plural)
Fliege (nominative singular)
Fliegen (definite nominative plural)
Fliege (genitive singular)
Fliegen (definite genitive plural)
Fliege (dative singular)
Fliegen (dative definite plural)
Fliege (accusative singular)
Fliegen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German fliege, vliege, from Old High German flioga, from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ. Cognate with Old English flēoġe (>English fly).


steampunk

en-noun

steampunk (countable and uncountable, plural steampunks)

From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).

Black Rock Desert
Burning Man
Greenbelt, Maryland
Nevada

There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.

1987 May, James Blaylock, Locus, volume 20, number 5 (#316 overall), page 57:

It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines.

2008 May 8, Ruth La Ferla, “Steampunk moves between 2 worlds”, in The New York Times:

The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.

2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57:

(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.


Schminke

de-noun

Schminke f (genitive Schminke, plural Schminken)

Schminke (genitive)
Schminken (plural)
Schminke (nominative singular)
Schminken (definite nominative plural)
Schminke (genitive singular)
Schminken (definite genitive plural)
Schminke (dative singular)
Schminken (dative definite plural)
Schminke (accusative singular)
Schminken (accusative definite plural)

→ Danish: sminke

→ Dutch: schmink

→ Esperanto: ŝminko

→ Hungarian: smink

→ Macedonian: шминка (šminka)

→ Norwegian: sminke

→ Polish: szminka

→ Serbo-Croatian: šminka, шминка

→ Slovene: šminka

→ Swedish: smink

An originally Central and Low German word, from late Middle High German smicke, smyncke (“make-up”), Middle Low German sminke. Further origin uncertain, but probably related with schmeichen, Middle Low German smēken (“to spread, stroke”).

cog

Ich gehe immer ohne Schminke zur Arbeit.


Bart

de-noun

Bart m (strong, genitive Bartes or Barts, plural Bärte, diminutive Bärtchen n)

Bartes (genitive)
Barts (genitive)
Bärte (plural)
Bärtchen (diminutive neuter)
Bart (nominative singular)
Bärte (definite nominative plural)
Bartes (genitive singular)
Barts (genitive singular)
Bärte (definite genitive plural)
Bart (dative singular)
Barte (dative singular)
Bärten (dative definite plural)
Bart (accusative singular)
Bärte (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German bart, from Old High German bart, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂. Compare Dutch baard, Luxembourgish Baart, West Frisian burd, English beard.

bit (the part of a key which interacts with the lock)


choker

Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.

2010 October 24, Alice Fisher, “Lara Stone: 'I think naughty photoshoots suit my personality'”, in The Observer:

The words: “Take your hands off when I say no, take your eyes off when I say no” were spelled out on video screens as the first model marched past in loose black layers, a punky choker and black shoes.

2023 September 26, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Dior opens Paris fashion week with feminist sloganeering on the catwalk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fashion) A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.


stubble

en-noun

stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)

From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.

(countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.


pannier

From Middle English panere, panȝere, panyere, from Old French panier, paniere, from Latin pānārium (“a bread basket”), from pānis (“bread”). Doublet of panary.

Holonyms: hoop skirt, side hood

(historical, fashion) One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side.

vanne

hoop used to expand a woman's skirt to either side


ensemble

(fashion) A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.


アクセント

Japanese pitch accent
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
ja:アクセント

(fashion, design) an accessory, an accent piece


corte

corte inglês

(fashion) a particular style or way certain pieces are made


attar of roses

a perfume made from an essential oil extracted from rose flowers


apadravya

From Sanskrit अपद्रव्य (apadravya), a generic name for a penile extension device as used in Kama Sutra.

A glans penis piercing where jewellery passes vertically through the urethra.


conjunto

Inherited from Latin coniūnctus, perfect passive participle of coniungō (“to join together”), from cum- + iungō (“to join”).


tips

tips (nominative singular)
tipsy (nominative plural)
tipsa (genitive singular)
tipsów (genitive plural)
tipsowi (dative singular)
tipsom (dative plural)
tips (accusative singular)
tipsy (accusative plural)
tipsem (instrumental singular)
tipsami (instrumental plural)
tipsie (locative singular)
tipsach (locative plural)
tipsie (singular vocative)
tipsy (plural vocative)

(chiefly in the plural) artificial nail, fake nail, acrylic nail, press-on, nail extension, nail enhancement (extension placed over a fingernail as a fashion accessory)


ouvert

Borrowed from French ouvert. Doublet of apert and overt.


eyebrow pencil

Makeup in a pencil-like applicator used to define or draw on the eyebrows.

мо́лив за ве́жди

makeup used to define or draw on the eyebrows


bearded

From Middle English berded, from Old English ġebearded, ġebeardede, ġebierd, ġebierde (“bearded”), from Proto-Germanic *bardōdaz (“bearded”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂tos (“bearded”), equivalent to beard + -ed. Cognate with Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).

The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer.

2017, Barbara W. Ellis, “Iris: Irises”, in Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants: Proven Perennials, Annuals, Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Every Garden, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 181:

(informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.


eye shadow

eye shadow (countable and uncountable, plural eye shadows)

Makeup that is applied to the eyelids and below the eyes to give a darker complexion there.


blusher

blusher (countable and uncountable, plural blushers)

Beside him Lady Partridge, her head tilted up, her face a mask of blusher and brown powder, like someone just back from a skiing holiday, was also clearly elsewhere.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(countable, uncountable) Face makeup that makes the cheeks rosier.


eyeliner

eyeliner (countable and uncountable, plural eyeliners)

Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.

2004, Paula Begoun, The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 419:

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.


lippy

lippy (countable and uncountable, plural lippies)

term-label

(originally Australia, now also British, New Zealand, colloquial)

From lip(stick) or lip (gloss) + -y (diminutive suffix).

Like some kind of masonic handshake, Collie passed Vanya a tube of black lippie. She smeared it carelessly across her wide mouth and handed it to me. My parents would have a hissy fit if they knew I put on lipstick but they weren't around.

2007, D. M. Ross, chapter 12, in The Holy Bad, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 52:

I'm worried I'm turning into a 1950s housewife: the other day I found myself tidying up the sitting room and putting on some lippie before Tony got home from work!

2008, Lynn Bertram, “The World of Motherhood”, in Supporting Postnatal Women Into Motherhood: A Guide to Therapeutic Groupwork for Health Professionals, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:

'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.

2008, Rachel Power, “Emma Matthews—Opera Singer”, in The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, →ISBN; republished Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 159:

A russet shade of sheer lippy proved the finishing touch to Meghan's latest make-up look. It wasn't a full gloss, but appeared to have a balm-like finish, a pretty touch of shine.

2020 January 9, Annie Vischer, “Meghan Markle’s Latest Make-Up Look Decoded”, in Grazia, London: Bauer Consumer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-10:

(uncountable) Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.


branding

en-noun

branding (countable and uncountable, plural brandings)

The promotion of a commercial brand of product in order to give it greater public awareness.


Hessian

Hessian (countable and uncountable, plural Hessians)


jasmine

jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural jasmines)

Etymology tree
Middle Persian yʾsmn'
Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.
Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn)bor.
French jasminbor.
English jasmine
Borrowed from French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn).

etymon

National Museum of Singapore
William Farquhar
jasmine

Italian jasmine

Chrysojasminum humile, syn. Jasminum humile


pachuco

es-adj

pachuco (feminine pachuca, masculine plural pachucos, feminine plural pachucas)

pachuca (feminine)
pachucos (masculine plural)
pachucas (feminine plural)

Unknown etymology. Hypotheses include:
* From a Classical Nahuatl word.
* A shortening of pa El Chuco ("to El Paso").
* From Pachuca.
* From pocho.


twofer

Shortened form of two-for-one [deal], that is, two for the price of one (BOGO).

The fashion of wearing long sleeves outside a short-sleeved shirt.


makeover

This room is a mess; it needs a makeover.

There was no furniture or carpet to speak of. The wallpaper was peeling off the walls and there was a smell of damp everywhere. It was as if they were living like squatters in their own flat. However, this was no time for a makeover, even a fifteen-minute one like on TV[…].

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.


guyliner

I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


supermodel

From super- + model. First written example dates from 1942 in the English language, in common use since the late 1980s. Sometimes incorrectly attributed to supermodel Janice Dickinson.

Kendall Jenner first earned the title of the "world's highest paid supermodel" in 2018 when Forbes released an article asserting that she had raked in $22.5 million that year.

2022 March 11, Sophie Lee, “How Kendall Jenner Became the Highest Paid Supermodel in the World”, in L'Officiel:


couture

en-noun

couture (countable and uncountable, plural coutures)

Ellipsis of haute couture, ultimately from French couture.

It was the branding of these products, rather than the couture itself, that would become the foundation of the industry, generating huge global sales by the last quarter of the century.

2007, Cally Blackman, 100 Years of Fashion Illustration, →ISBN, page 166:

Anyway, there are only a few hundred clients in the world who regularly buy couture, including Middle Eastern royalty and American businesswomen.

2018 June 30, Vanessa Friedman, “Why We Cover High Fashion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(fashion) The production of high-end, custom-made clothing.


couture

id-noun

couture (first-person possessive coutureku, second-person possessive couturemu, third-person possessive couturenya)

coutureku (first-person possessive)
couturemu (possessive second-person)
couturenya (possessive third-person)

Unadapted borrowing from English couture (“production of high-end, custom-made clothing”), ellipsis of haute couture (“haute couture, high fashion”, literally “high, elegant + sewing”). Compare French couture (“sewing”).

ubor

(fashion) couture: production of high-end, custom-made clothing.


tato

Borrowed from English tattoo, from a Polynesian language.


glam

Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously.

2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian:

(music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock.; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.