Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

visagiste

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vis-ag-iste
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A make-up artist.

Example Sentences

"Ordinarily, my impulse would have been to call of all the re-making and go promptly to sleep, but before I firmed up this thought, the visagiste went to work on me with a large tuft of cotton[…]"
"What is a face-maker, a visagiste, a cosmetic artist? He—more often than she—is the creative talent behind a new look which will catch on and make us all wish to look like Alice in Wonderland or Mata Hari depending on the mood he's projecting."

Etymology

Borrowed from French visagiste.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: visagiste

Inflected Forms

visagistes (plural)

Questions

What does visagiste mean?: A make-up artist.
Where does visagiste come from?: It is traced to French.

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