face-maker

English

Noun

face-maker (plural face-makers)

1. One who makes a face.
   • 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:

     ‘Messieurs et Mesdames, I present to you at this Fair, […] the Ventriloquist, the Ventriloquist! Further, Messieurs et Mesdames, I present to you the Face-Maker, the Physiognomist, the great Changer of Countenances, who transforms the features that Heaven has bestowed upon him into an endless succession of surprising and extraordinary visages, […]

2. A make-up artist.
   • 1972 July, Harper's Bazaar, volume 105, page 36:

     What is a face-maker, a visagiste, a cosmetic artist? He—more often than she—is the creative talent behind a new look which will catch on and make us all wish to look like Alice in Wonderland or Mata Hari depending on the mood he's projecting.