Blusher is colour brushed onto the cheeks. Apply a little blusher.
It imitates the flush of health or of embarrassment, which is where the name comes from. Blusher goes on the high point of the cheek and blends upward, since a hard edge shows in daylight.
1nounblusherColour brushed onto the cheeks.
“A little blusher took ten years off the whole photograph.”
blusher is a product.
Also accepted in games: blush
Proto-Germanic
*blaskijaną
Old English
blysċan — to be red; shine
Middle English
blusshen
English
blush
English, today
blusher
Built from
From blush + -er. blush comes from Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic blaskijaną, from blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic bluskijaną, from blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-. Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen (“to blush”). Compare also Old English blysian (“to burn; blaze”), Dutch blozen (“to blush”), Danish blusse (“to blush”), Old Norse blys (“torch”), Danish blus (“blaze”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA