mascara

plural mascaras

1. countableuncountableA cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

   mascara runs

   5 more examples

   apply mascara

   put on mascara

   mascara smudges

   With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

   2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157

   There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

   2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45

present singular third person mascaras · participle present mascaraing · participle past mascaraed · past mascaraed

1. To apply mascara to the eyelashes

1. A city and provincial capital in northwestern Algeria.
2. A province of Algeria.