Definition: Facial paint or rouge; any embellishment that conceals imperfection. Originally, the white coloring added to women's faces to conceal the tire-prints of time in the 18th and 19th centuries.
[@more@]Usage: Used as a verb, today's word can refer to covering blemishes of the face with makeup or hiding faults with anything decorative: "The university uses these faculty dinners to fard over embarrassing dissensions between departments."
Suggested Usage: Should today's word be given a second chance now that makeup is making a comeback? Using it flatteringly might be difficult, "She is such a master at farding her face, you would never dream that her last birthday was her fiftieth." More likely it would be used in unflattering references, "No amount of farding can conceal the wicked tongue of hers." How long would we be able to resist, "That old fard-face uses enough make-up for six women." No, nothing good can come of this one. Let's let it lie.
Etymology: The Oxford English Dictionary claims that the word is untraceable but the Century dictionary relates it to Old Germanic farawa, Middle German varwe, German Farbe "color." The latter relation is difficult to ignore.
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