Painted, colored, or cosmetically enhanced; artificially decorated or made up.
From Latin fucatus, meaning painted or dyed, derived from fucus (paint, dye, or deceit). The Romans used fucus as both cosmetic and metaphor for falsehood.
The Romans thought makeup was fundamentally dishonest—fucus meant both the dye and the *lie* it told. This word captures an ancient moral panic about cosmetics that lasted well into modernity.
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