visagiste

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French visagiste.

Noun

visagiste (plural visagistes)

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

French

Etymology

From visage (face) +‎ -iste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.za.ʒist/
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Noun

visagiste m or f by sense (plural visagistes)

  1. make-up artist

Descendants

  • English: visagiste
  • German: Visagist

Further reading

Italian

Noun

visagiste f

  1. plural of visagista