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Pan-Cake
[pan-keyk]
a brand of cosmetic in a semimoist cake of compressed powder, usually applied with a moist sponge.
Example Sentences
Even so, Max Factor sold a version of the look to the masses with his full coverage Pan-Cake line and contouring tutorials.
But, all too often, out would totter Helen Gurley Brown: Aged, skeletal, wrapped in Pucci and wearing several coats of Pan-Cake, she looked like someone’s foxy grandma on her way to the champagne brunch at Leisure World.
The competition to stamp the imprint of couture on mass-market cosmetics has gotten as thick as Pan-Cake.
This wasn’t the first flashback to the Pan-Cake years for Ms. Westman, who prefers to use foundation and cover-up sparingly.
Cake, kāk, n. a piece of dough that is baked: a small loaf of fine bread: any flattened mass baked, as pan-cake, &c., or as soap, wax, tobacco, &c.: a thin hard-baked kind of oaten-bread—whence Scotland is styled the 'Land of Cakes:' fancy bread, sweetened: a composition of bread with butter, sugar, spices, currants, raisins, &c., baked into any form—plum-cake, tea-cake, wedding-cake.—v.t. to form into a cake or hard mass.—v.i. to become baked or hardened.—adj.
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