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antimakeup

adj

Etymology

From anti- + makeup.

Definitions

  1. Opposing the wearing of makeup.

    • It is not only to makeup which this argument objects (after all, there is also a Western feminist antimakeup discourse) but also to any improper exposure, including that of the head.
    • On the first night of the antimakeup crusade, policewomen kept close watch over the city's train stations. "Now go right back and wash your face," one of the policewomen told a rosy-cheeked 16-year-old coming out of a restroom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA