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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mascara
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Maybelline, with 1994 revenue of $ 352. 6 million, makes Great Lash mascara and Revitalizing makeup.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An actress always likes to be on the ground smeared with mascara wallowing in something.
▪ Good for sensitive skin, but had to rub hard around eyes to remove mascara.
▪ Her lipstick was smudged, her eyes black with mascara.
▪ Maybelline, with 1994 revenue of $ 352. 6 million, makes Great Lash mascara and Revitalizing makeup.
▪ She made do with Kleenex and blotted the black mascara off her face.
▪ The rain had smudged my sooty mascara and it was streaked down my cheek.
▪ Yes, in fact Emilou cried, and Wendi had made a fuss about the mascara on my sixty-buck shirt.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mascara

mascara \mascara\ n. A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eye lashes, usually applied with a small brush.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mascara

cosmetic for coloring eyelashes, 1883, mascaro (modern form from 1922), from Spanish mascara "a stain, a mask," from same source as Italian maschera "mask" (see mask (v.)).

Wiktionary
mascara

n. A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes. vb. To apply mascara to the eyelashes

WordNet
mascara

n. makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes

Wikipedia
Mascara

Mascara is a cosmetic commonly used to enhance the eyes. It may darken, thicken, lengthen, and/or define the eyelashes. Normally in one of three forms—liquid, cake, or cream—the modern mascara product has various formulas; however, most contain the same basic components of pigments, oils, waxes, and preservatives.

Mascara (song)

"Mascara" is the second single by Australian band Killing Heidi from their debut album Reflector. It was released in November 1999 while their debut single "Weir" was still active on the charts. The re-release of the "Mascara" single was released with "Leave Me Alone" as its B-side.

Mascara (disambiguation)

Mascara is a cosmetic used on eyelashes to enhance one's eyes.

Mascara may also refer to:

Entertainment
  • Mascara (CSI), a episode of the TV series Crime Scene Investigation
  • "Mascara", a song by Deftones from their album Around the Fur
  • Mascara (1987 film) (Belgium, Netherlands, France, 1987), with Charlotte Rampling, Michael Sarrazin, Romy Haag and others
  • Mascara (1995 film) (South Korea, 1995)
  • Mascara, an annual drag queen event during Divers/Cité, Montreal's Pride Week
  • La Mascara (EP), a 1998 EP by The Blackeyed Susans
People
  • Frank Mascara (1930–2011), American politician from Pennsylvania
  • Ken Mascara (born 1958), politician in Florida, USA
  • Robert Mascara (born 1972), Australian TV floor manager
  • Giuseppe Mascara (born 1979), Italian football player
  • La Mascara (wrestler) (born 1982), Mexican wrestler
  • Several masked Mexican wrestlers have "Máscara" (Spanish for "mask") as part of their stage name
Other
  • Mascara, Algeria, a city in Algeria
    • Mascara District, the district containing the city
      • Mascara Province, the Algerian province containing the district and city
  • , a French coastal tanker in service 1946-51

Mascara (musician)

Shane Shumate, better known by his stage name Mascara (stylized as M△S▴C△RA), is an American electronic musician from New York City. He released his debut EP, Black Mass, on Tundra Dubs in 2010, following it up with a second EP, Silver Knight Gothic, on Black Bus Records in 2011, as well as VHS tape The Five Wounds on Video/Horror/Show. In 2015 Mascara released an album of "unreleased cuts" called Heru-Ra-Ha on London-based cassette label Dagger Forest.

Usage examples of "mascara".

There was no great surge of power, so I deepened the blue liner and added mascara and blush.

I lined my eyes in midnight blue, gunked them up with mascara, painted my mouth whore red, and hung the biggest, brassiest earrings I owned from my lobes.

Her mascara had smudged, making the bags under her eyes more pronounced.

My hair was stuck to my face and my mascara was not living up to its waterproof promise.

I pulled my hair into a ponytail, applied some lipstick and a single swipe of mascara and I was ready for the day.

It had been years since she had cried and not found mascara all over everything.

At the makeup mirror of the woman I work for, I put her mascara up inside each nostril until my nose hair looks thick and full.

She laughed and butted her cigarette in the salver meant to receive tips, then she walked into the crowded reception room where the singer with the gold-tinsel wig and the green mascara was bobbing over the heads of the company, chanting in thin falsetto something about a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and you.

Not a strand of silvery-blond hair was out of place, not a fleck of mascara marred the pale flesh beneath her eyes.

The two eye shadows lapsed into hurt silence, glaring backwards at the mascara box, then rolling their shared eyes forward to look at Annie as she knelt on the floor.

She had nice long lashes, but without mascara they were a light brown that made them almost invisible.

Geraldine looked into space with her hard sad eyes that had parcels of lines in the thick mascara under them.

Eyes made impossibly huge with mascara, nose slightly hooked and bowed, two vertical dimples on either side of the mouth, crocheted shawl covering hair and back, high cheekbones, warm-brown skin.

So near one in the morning she was at the Spoon with her hair hanging straight, dressed in black, no makeup except for mascara in sad raccoon-rings round her eyes, looking like all those other women and girls: camp followers.

He smoothed a dab of makeup across her cheekbones and feathered it down her cheeks, stroked mascara into her eyelashes, brushed lipstick onto her mouth.