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Definition: Cover Girl |
Cover GirlNoun1. A very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Cover GirlSynonyms: lovely (n), pin-up (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Almost always, a special photo session is done and the woman is given a makeover so her appearance conforms to the type exalted by the magazine. After having been specially made-up, dressed and groomed, the subject of the cover photo will then be carefully lit in the most flattering light possible. They will then be photographed from dozens to hundreds of times, and the most flattering images selected.
The images thus obtained will then be retouched; the eyes and teeth of the woman will be brightened towards peak white, all skin blemishes and skin texture airbrushed out, and her figure may be artificially slimmed and elongated. Sometimes, the head of one model will be used on the body of another. In recent years, digital post-processing has been used in the place of airbrushing and other traditional photographic techniques.
The end product often bears little resemblance to the normal appearance of the person that stood before the camera, and provides an impossible role model for other people to live up to. Some people allege that because of this, cover girl images are resposible for encouraging girls and women to develop anorexia.
See also: supermodel, photography, photo shoot, photo retouching
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Movie/TV Titles | Cover Girl (1968) The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989) Cheryl Hanson: Cover Girl (1981) | |
Song Titles | Cover Girl (performing artist: New Kids On The Block) | |
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Economic History | Ecuador | U.S. brands like Avon, Maybelline, and Cover Girl are perceived as high-quality products, and demand for them come from the middle and upper class segments of the market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cover girl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | fotomodelka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kansikuvatyttö. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カノン (cannon, cover, cover charge, covering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カバーガール . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overcay irlgay omslagsflicka. (various references) cô gái có ảnh ở bìa báo ảnh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Cover Girl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: covergirl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-l-o-r-r-v" | |
-3 letters: clover, coiler, corrie, glover, gorier, grocer, grovel, logier, orrice, recoil, voicer. | |
-4 letters: ceorl, clove, corer, corgi, cover, crier, crore, ervil, giver, glove, grove, liger, liver, livre, logic, lover, ogive, ogler, oiler, oleic, olive, orgic, oriel, relic, reoil, rerig, ricer, rigor, river, roger, rover, vigor, viler, vireo, vogie, voice, voile. | |
-5 letters: ceil, cero, cire. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-l-o-r-r-v" | |
+3 letters: overclearing. | |
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