facial
noun/ˈfeɪʃl/
/ˈfeɪʃl/
- a beauty treatment in which a person’s face is cleaned using creams, steam (= gas produced when water boils), etc. in order to improve the quality of the skinWord Originearly 17th cent. (as a theological term meaning ‘face to face, open’): from medieval Latin facialis, from facies ‘form, appearance, face’. The current sense of the adjective dates from the early 19th cent.
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