Painted with makeup or cosmetics; having the face or body covered with applied beautifying substances.
Past participle of 'fard,' functioning as an adjective. It describes someone whose face has been painted with cosmetics, often with a critical or ironic connotation in historical usage.
In Renaissance literature, 'farded' often appears as a critical description—'a farded face' suggested artificiality and deception, reflecting anxieties about women, vanity, and the boundary between 'natural' beauty and 'fake' appearance.
Past tense of fard; carries the pejorative sense that makeup-wearing individuals are concealing truth or being inauthentic—a specifically gendered moral judgment.
Use as neutral descriptor. Do not use to imply falseness or artificiality in character.
["decorated","styled","made up"]
Wearing cosmetics is valid self-presentation; it does not indicate dishonesty or reduced authenticity.
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