makeup
ma·keup
noun
3.
an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
- “he missed the test and had to take a makeup”
- “the two teams played a makeup one week later”
Origin
Deverbal from make up. Noun sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”).
Phrases
- face without makeup
- kabuki makeup syndrome
- makeup artist
- makeup call
- makeup editor
- makeup remover
- mineral makeup
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