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Definition of Make-up

1. Noun. An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event. "The two teams played a makeup one week later"

2. Noun. The way in which someone or something is composed.

3. Noun. Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance.

Definition of Make-up

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of makeup) See usage notes there. ¹

2. Adjective. Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated. ¹

3. Adjective. (informal) Of or relating to a reconciliation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Make-up

makateas makatite make-believe make-do make-hawk make-king make-koshi make-or-break make-out make-over

make-peace make-readies make-ready make-sport make-up (current term) make-up artist make-up artists make-work make a break for it make a clean breast

make a decision make a difference make a face make a fool of make a go of it make a hash of make a killing make a leg make a living

Literary usage of Make-up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"It was the practice that the orders, when taken, were forwarded to the residence of the seller, and when a sufficient quantity to make up a car load had ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... of the sheets which make up a book ' containing space for mounting and fully describing fifty-one botanical specimens,' and in addition 'full directions ..."

3. Collections by CT Historical Society (1908)
"... git what land he wants to make up his lott by reason of by ways beng taken out of his lotts and all other wants to be laid out with his second Devisions ..."

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