pencil
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈpɛnsl/
:
lápiz de maquillaje
- For a natural look, she uses a pencil to define her eyebrows.
Oh, this is Feline Eye Pencil for Mac.
- Oh, this is Feline Eye Pencil for Mac.
- This is a it says dual lip pencil from Vincent Longo.
- There's three four eye pencils and then what is this?
- The same with eye pencils and lip pencils.
- They've got brow powders, brow gels and brow pencils and brow ink.
Examples
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This is the Sculpt brow pencil from AOA Studio.
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A pink eyebrow pencil shows which tissues are to be added.
Academic text (1995) -
Then you take eye pencil, right?
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This is a really nice lip pencil like colour.
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This is the Mac lip pencil in Cool spice.
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I'm a big fan of a pencil for eyeshadow.
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Her mother moved the pencil in a deliberate thin line around the lashes of her right eye.
Fiction book (2000) -
Anyways, let's move this pencil and put it on the eyebrow.
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It's the soft and precise lip pencil in the shade cheerful.
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Lola pulls out a green eye pencil, and with a shaky hand, begins to draw along one lid.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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2.1
A dark line drawn along the edge of the eyelid to make the eyes look bigger
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2.1
A pencil used to darken and shape the eyebrows
Compounds
- Specialized
A small paint brush with very soft hairs for painting fine details
- Specialized
An evergreen tree, like the eastern red cedar, whose wood is used to make pencils
- Archaic
A thin stick of soft stone that people use to write on a slate in old classrooms
How Bold
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pencil comes from the Latin penicillus, meaning 'little tail', first used for a small brush and later for thin sticks of color, so a makeup pencil is simply a thin stick used to add color or definition to the face.