makeup remover meaning: definition, quotations

makeup remover

nounalso spelled makeup-remover

A product used to remove makeup, typically a solvent.

To cleanse your face at night, use cold cream (I like it better than liquid makeup removers).1980, Lois Wyse, Blonde, Beautiful Blonde: How to Look, Live, Work, and Think Blonde, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
The medicine cabinet here has a bottle of contact lens solution, nasal spray, a light blue bottle of makeup remover, a container of Vaseline.2014, Carla Buckley, The Deepest Secret, Bantam Books, →ISBN:

noun

Rare Rare form of makeup remover.

One batch of the makeup-remover was not mineral oil, at all, but milk of magnesia.1959 March 27, Joe Coyle, “Easter Pageant Problems Involve Cowboy Boots”, in The Lexington Leader, volume 71, number 73, Lexington, Ky., page 14, column 2:
Cleansing Cream, the gentle, thorough makeup-remover.1968 October 21, Chicago Tribune, 122d year, number 295, Chicago, Ill., section 2, page 9:

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Extremely Gentle Cleansing Cream, lightweight makeup-remover.1978 September 10, The Shreveport Times, Shreveport, La. – Bossier City, La., page 4-E:
Towels, makeup-remover and moisturizers are available to clients, although Heli herself has found no need for the latter.1982 December 9, Nancy Dorrance, “Sunseekers soak up rays: Artificial tan’s a hot seller”, in The Sault Star, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., page B2, columns 3–4:
YOUR GIFT contains Extremely Gentle Cleansing Cream, pre-soap cleanerser^([sic]) and makeup-remover; […]1985 April 18, The Victoria Advocate, 139th year, number 345, Victoria, Tex., page 1D:
Ebullient and normally sparkly-eyed, Lockwood glistens today with the added stimulus of the makeup-remover that, still drying on her cheeks, brings up an occasional tear.1986 December 14, Calvin Ahlgren, “Mime Trouper Masters Berkeley’s ‘Servant’”, in Datebook (San Francisco Chronicle), page 29, columns 1–2: