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mascara

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//məˈskɑːɹə//
  • United States//ˌmæsˈkæɹə//
  • United States//ˌmæsˈkɛɹə//
  • Australia//ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə//
  • Australia//məsˈkɑːɹə//

A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

noun

  1. 1

    A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

    apply mascara

    put on mascara

    mascara runs

    mascara smudges

Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

verb

  1. 1

    To apply mascara to the eyelashes

Forms

plural
mascaras
past tense
mascaraed
past participle
mascaraed
present participle
mascaraing
third person singular
mascaras
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).