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Face Powder

Definition: Face Powder

Face Powder

Noun

1. Cosmetic powder for the face.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms within Context: Face Powder

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

Cosmetics, makeup; eye shadow, rouge, face powder, lipstick, blush.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Face Powder

Specialty definitions using "face powder": COSMETICS PRESSERPHOTOENGRAVING PRINTER, PLASTER MOLDER II, proof-plate makerrouge pressershooting on-the-free, stripper and printer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Face Powder

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You steal my soap, you steal my cigarettes, you even stole my face powder. (Englishman Abroad, An; writing credit: Alan Bennett)

Get her in here, we have to be at the ballroom at 8. No time for face powder. (Scandal Sheet; writing credit: Samuel Fuller; Eugene Ling)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Face Powder

DomainTitle

Books

  • Collector's Encyclopedia of Compacts Carry Alls & Face Powder Boxes (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Face Powder

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

face powder

29

coty face powder

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Face Powder

Language Translations for "face powder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

ihojauhe. (various references)

   

French

  

poudre de riz. (various references)

   

German

  

Puder (cosmetic powder, powder), Gesichtspuder. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πούδρα (powder, talc, toilet powder). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אבקת פ ים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

púder (facial powder, powder). (various references)

   

Manx

  

poodyr eddin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acefay owderpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

de bruços (prong). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пудра (powder). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polvos (cosmetic powder, powder). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

makyaj pudrası (toilet powder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Face Powder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-o-p-r-w"

-2 letters: prefaced.

-3 letters: capered, cowered, defacer, deforce, forepaw, powered, precode, preface, prefade, proceed, refaced, wafered.

-4 letters: carped, coward, cowpea, craped, creped, crewed, crowed, deafer, decare, deface, drawee, farced, feared, fedora, forced, ocreae, pardee, peaced, powder, reaped, recode, redcap, redowa, reface, warped.

-5 letters: acred, adore, afore, arced, cadre, caped, caper, cared, cawed, cedar, ceder, cered, coder, coped, coper, copra, cored, cowed, cower, crape, credo, creed, creep, crepe, crowd, decaf, decor, defer, dewar, doper, dower, drape, dwarf, eared, epode, erode, faced, facer, fader, farce, fared, fewer, force, freed, oared, ocrea, opera, oread, paced, pacer, padre, pared, pareo, pawed, pawer, peace, pedro, perea, pored, power, preed, raced, raped, recap, refed, rewed, roped, rowed, wader, wafer, wared.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Face Powder


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 63 65      50 6F 77 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#119 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0063 0065      0050 006F 0077 0064 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

406769712508189707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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