Farded
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:11 am
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.
Pattie Tancred
Pattie Tancred