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The universe's way of reminding your face it's not a marble statue.
means A small flaw or mark that spoils an otherwise smooth or perfect surface, especially skin.
from Comes from Middle English 'blemiss' or 'blemishen,' borrowed from Old French 'blesmir,' meaning to make pale or injure, which traces back to a Germanic root related to turning livid or discolored — the same family that gives us words about bruising and paleness. The sense drifted from 'injury that discolors' to simply any mark that mars an otherwise clean appearance.
- original meaning
- once meant bruise, not blackhead
- shakespeare used it
- to describe moral stains, not skin
- cosmetic industry
- built billions on this one word