2012_04_24 Fard n. 适用于化妆品.v. To apply cosmetics.

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

名词：
1。面部化妆品。

她farded与做作英寸厚。她的熏香与麝香的幌子窒息。她脸颊上的颜色是油漆，部分模拟谦虚。
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拿着一支蜡烛，包裹在非常破旧housegown，在她的脸颊和她花白的头发，拧她的耳朵以上的短辫子一些的fard的一种，大大高，她有一个相当可笑的空气......
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fard“。染料或颜色”，从旧的低的弗兰克尼亚字farwiđon意义在古法语成为意义farder“打扮”。