mascara

[ma-skar-uh, ma-skahr-uh]

noun

1. a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.

verb (used with object)

1. to apply mascara to.

mascara

/ mæˈskɑːrə /

noun

1. a cosmetic substance for darkening, colouring, and thickening the eyelashes, applied with a brush or rod

Word History and Origins

Origin of mascara¹

1885–90; < Spanish: mask; mask

Word History and Origins

Origin of mascara¹

C20: from Spanish: mask

Example Sentences

Where once they were garish young rockers buried under mascara, now they are garish older rockers, desperately hanging onto their youth.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, TV is so loaded with running mascara and bird’s nest hair that it’s difficult to tell shows apart.

From Salon

In front of a red velvet curtain with smudged mascara and a crystal teardrop on her cheek, Del Rio delivered a moving a cappella performance of “Llorando,” a Spanish-language take of Roy Orbison’s “Crying.”

From Los Angeles Times

“My father would walk into the room and he would light it up,” she says, wiping her mascara in a confessional.

From Salon

I regularly did more research on what type of mascara to buy than I did any online probing about this man for whom I was about to detonate my life.

From Los Angeles Times