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Ideals of beauty
AP French Unité 3 La beauté et l'esthétique
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| attirant | attractive |
| avoir l'air | to look, to seem |
| une boucle d'oreille | an earring |
| bronzé | tanned |
| chauve | bald |
| des cheveux teints | dyed hair |
| une cicatrice | scar |
| costaud | stocky, muscular, and strong (not particularly esthetic though) |
| l'estime de soi | self-esteem |
| le gavage | force-feeding |
| une grain de beauté | beauty mark/mole |
| laid | ugly |
| la laideur | ugliness |
| une manicure | a manicure |
| mince | thin |
| musclé | muscular (and esthetic, as opposed to costaud) |
| obèse | obese |
| les ongles | fingernails |
| une perruque | a wig |
| un piercing | a piercing |
| un piercing au nez | a nose piercing |
| le poids | weights |
| les rides | wrinkles |
| rond | plump |
| la scarification | the practice of scarring one's skin for beauty modification |
| se faire percer | to get a piercing |
| se faire tatouer | to get a tattoo |
| un tatouage | a tattoo |
| le visage | face |