fard

make-up; deception

“« La City n'a jamais été fan du retrait », résume sans fard le Lord Mayor Nicholas Lyons (Le Monde, 17 avril 2023).”

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French fard (“make-up, cosmetics”), from farder (“to apply make-up, use cosmetics”), from Old Frankish *farwidōn (“to dye, colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (“to colour”), from *farwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farwjan (“to colour”), Middle Low German varwe (“colour”). See more above.