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fard.

make-up

4 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/faʁ/

  1. make-up

    masculine

  2. deception

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French fard (“make-up, cosmetics”), from farder (“to apply make-up, use cosmetics”), from Old Frankish *farwidōn (“to dye, colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farwjan (“to colour”), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”). See more above.

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