What is "manicure"

Usage examples of "manicure".

Tess took out the applique, then wandered over to a small lead-paned window which opened out onto the manicured grounds.

At fifty, Arroyo looked sleek, slick, and ready for prime time, his razor-cut pompadour in perfect order, glasses lightly tinted, manicured nails buffed to a subtle gloss.

Consuelo van Bullyon, who stayed with them in the spring, always carried two very obvious jewel-cases with her to the bath-room, explaining them to any one she chanced to meet in the corridor as her manicure and face-massage set.

Everything was manicured, managed, perfect, the strangely shaped trees not seeming to have so much as a leaf out of place, the amber-colored grass seemingly mown with micrometric precision.

It was all corporate land here, manicured to expensive perfection in front of the identical blocks of flats and houses bought from the same prefab supplier, allowed to go to an approximation of wilderness in the ditch that separated the access road from the feeder and the overarching flyway.

I caught up on paying bills, answered dozens of accumulated e-mails, napped in the late afternoon, phoned family and friends, and put on my hooded rain slicker to cross the street for a late-afternoon pedicure and manicure.

She gave herself a manicure and pedicure, painting her nails a deep scarlet.

Once they worked her over with the manicure prodders and eyebrow tweezers, curling tongs and earwax scoops, left her fermenting all afternoon in a mealy flour face mask, then finished her off with a delicate sponging of red ochre across the cheekbones and a fine gleam of antimony above the eyes, Helena Justina was bound to be presentable enough, even to me.

With their manicured fingernails, respectable haircuts and conservative suits, Sacker and the other three attorneys from his influential Washington law firm looked as if Georgetown Law School had punched them out of legal dough with a cookie cutter.

Wait: here comes her hand, idling slantways down her rump, ten bucks of manicure on each fingertip.

He stood on a manicured verge of grass, well populated with geometrically sheared bushes and shrubs.

I got a pedicure, a manicure and a facial at the salon where I worked, and the new guy, Andrew, did my hair in this soft, swingy style.

Taras evenly spaced on manicured quarter-acre lots, was so pristine its planners had succumbed to anglophilia and named the subdivision Nottingham Forest.

While she waited for the big silver Buick to rock to a stop, she flashed back on the white smile and manicured hands of the good-looking car salesman who spent a whole afternoon convincing her to pay extra for antilock brakes.

She was a fashion plate who received a lot of grief for being the only known barbeque contestant with red, manicured nails.