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Make-up   /meɪk-əp/   Listen
Make-up

noun
1.
An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event.  Synonym: makeup.  "The two teams played a makeup one week later"
2.
The way in which someone or something is composed.  Synonyms: composition, constitution, makeup, physical composition.
3.
Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance.  Synonyms: makeup, war paint.






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"Make-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... well by this time, Hugh," he said. Hugh awoke from his abstraction and displayed immediate interest. "You know that I am straightforward and honest, if nothing else. There is also in my make-up a pride which you may never have observed or suspected, and it is of this that I want to speak before attempting to say something which will depend altogether upon the ...
— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon

... few traits of Bismarck's mental and moral make-up which seem to be closely allied with German national character and traditions. But, after all, the personality of a man like Bismarck is not exhausted by the qualities which he has in common with his people, however ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... movement-sensations in explaining aesthetic feeling. [Footnote: See the discussions in Lee and Thompson: Beauty and Ugliness.] Yet in the case of all people who are not strongly of the motor type, people in whose mental make-up movement plays a minor part in comparison with vision and other sensations, they play a secondary role, or even hardly any role at all. Most spectators, indeed, instead of actually making slight movements imitative ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... classical; he entered when his cue was given by Scheherazade—this oily, hawk-nosed Eurasian with his pale eyes set too closely and his moustache hiding under his nose a la Enver Pasha—a faultless make-up, an entry properly timed and prepared. And then, always well-timed for dramatic effect, Golden Beard had appeared. Everything was en regle, every unity nicely preserved. Scheherazade had protested; and her protest sounded genuine. Also entirely convincing ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... in the water, and was garbed in a most dilapidated old dress, which I had borrowed from one of the servants for the purpose. A pair of gloves made of basil, and a big hat, much torn in struggling through the undergrowth, completed my make-up. My hair was most unbecomingly screwed up, the short ends sticking out ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin


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