makeup remover

See also: makeup-remover and make-up remover

English

Alternative forms

• make-up remover
• makeup-remover (rare)

Noun

makeup remover (countable and uncountable, plural makeup removers)

1. A product used to remove makeup, typically a solvent.
   • 1980, Lois Wyse, Blonde, Beautiful Blonde: How to Look, Live, Work, and Think Blonde, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:

     To cleanse your face at night, use cold cream (I like it better than liquid makeup removers).

   • 2014, Carla Buckley, The Deepest Secret, Bantam Books, →ISBN:

     The medicine cabinet here has a bottle of contact lens solution, nasal spray, a light blue bottle of makeup remover, a container of Vaseline.

Translations

product for removing make-up

Afrikaans: grimeringverwyderaar French: démaquillant (fr) m German: Make-up-Entferner m Hungarian: sminklemosó Norwegian: Bokmål: sminkefjerner m Polish: płyn do demakijażu m, abszminka (pl) f (in theater) Portuguese: demaquilante (pt) m