标题: Nail Embelishment [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-14-2010 10:55 标题: Nail Embelishment 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
embellish (vt; from en- + bel beautiful): "to make beautiful with
ornamentation: DECORATE"
www.m-w.com
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Kayleen Schaefer, Every Finger Tells a Story; Minx Shines Like Nail Polish
But Can Look Like Leopard Spots or Brand Russell's Face. New York Times, Oct
. 14, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/fashion/14SKIN.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=nail&st=cse
Note:
(a) Topshop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topshop
(a British chain of clothing stores; 1964 by Jessie Pearman; today a
subsidiary of Arcadia Group)
(b) Sephora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephora
(a chain of cosmetics stores founded in France in 1969 and acquired by Paris
-based conglomerate LVMH in 1997; Sephora is a combination of "sephos",
which is Greek for "beauty" + the Greek form of Tzipporah, which means "bird
" (female) in Hebrew, and was the name of the wife of Moses in the Book of
Exodus)
* Because Old Testament was written in Hebrew, Moses' wife has various
spellings in English. See Zipporah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipporah
(c) Nail Fraud, by Urban Outfitters.
http://www.nailfraud.com
(d) For "French-manicured nails," see manicure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicure
(a photo; section 1 History: French manicures are manicures designed to
resemble natural nails, and are characterized by natural pink base nails
with white tips. The tips of the nails are painted white while the rest of
the nails are polished in a pink or a suitable nude shade. French manicures
may have originated in eighteenth-century Paris and were popular in the
1920s and 1930s)
(e) Minx Nails
http://www.minxnails.com
You can click a PRC flag-lookalike in the top row to get translation in
TRANDITIONAL Chinese.
(f) Color Me Badd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Me_Badd
(an R&B vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; all male;
years active 1987-2000)
* You can search images of Color Me Badd in the web. By no means were their
outfits outrageous (ordinary, in my view).