I came across this word in a (not very good) translation of Nikos Katzanzakis' Christ Recrucified. I had to scuttle to the OED to discover what the translator meant by 'her farded lips' (I don't have a copy of the book in Greek. It would be interesting to know what the phrase was in the original). Fard is an archaic word for face paint or make-up. I think that it's a word worth resurrecting.
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Re: Farded
If it does get resurrected people will have to be very careful about pronouncing that d.
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