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visagiste en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French visagiste.

Meanings

1. A make-up artist.
   • What is a face-maker, a visagiste, a cosmetic artist? He—more often than she—is the creative talent behind a new look which will catch on and make us all wish to look like Alice in Wonderland or Mata Hari depending on the mood he's projecting. 1972 July, Harper's Bazaar, volume 105, page 36:
   • Ordinarily, my impulse would have been to call of all the re-making and go promptly to sleep, but before I firmed up this thought, the visagiste went to work on me with a large tuft of cotton[…] 1958, Vogue, volume 131, page 105:

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