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Word entry · 9 letters

cosmetics

Best crossword clue

"Beauty products"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /kɒzˈmɛt.ɪks/Sorted cceimosstStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Products used to improve or alter appearance.

Word origin

From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), from κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), an adjective of κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: makeup, make-up; beauty products
  • Near-synonym: cosmesis
  • In the great fishbowl that we're doing everything in it's kind of unfortunate, but the cosmetics of the thing are more important than what's accomplished — in a great many ways.

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