mascara

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/, /məsˈkɑːɹə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈskɑːɹə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkæɹə/

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

1. A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

   apply mascara

   put on mascara

   mascara runs

   mascara smudges

   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

     With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

   • 2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:

     There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

mascara (third-person singular simple present mascaras, present participle mascaraing, simple past and past participle mascaraed)

1. To apply mascara to the eyelashes

• mask

• Camaras, maracas, marasca

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *mask- (“black, stained”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məsˈka.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [masˈka.ɾa]

mascara f (plural mascares)

1. soot
2. stain
3. sooty mold

   Synonym: fumagina

• emmascarar
• mascarell

• “mascara”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From English mascara. Doublet of masker.

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• Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧ra

mascara f or m (plural mascara's, diminutive mascaraatje n)

1. mascara

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mascara”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Borrowed from Italian mascara.

• IPA^(key): /mas.ka.ʁa/

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mascara m (plural mascaras)

1. mascara

• “mascara”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

mascara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar

See maschera

mascara m (invariable)

1. mascara

   Synonym: rimmel

• marasca

mascara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar
2. inflection of mascarar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مسقره (maskara).

mascara f (plural mascarale)

1. derision, ridicule, mocking
2. (dated) clown

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mascara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mascar

• maskara

mascara c

1. mascara

• smink (“makeup”)
• sminka (“put on makeup”)

• mascara in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mascara in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)