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