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Sentence Examples
The remarkable unctuosity of this plant has caused it to be applied to chaps, and as a pomatum to the hair.
Early wigs were made of black horsehair, dressed daily with powder and a scented ointment called pomatum, which had ruinous effects on the wearer's clothes.
Examples from Classical Literature
If, on cooling, it assumes the consistency of pomatum, the paste is finished.
Lotions of the smaller centaury or of stavesacre, and pomatum mixed with mercurial ointment, are very efficacious.
To make soft pomatum, beat half a pound of unsalted fresh lard in common water, then soak and beat in two different rose-waters.
The mouses used to run up his back and eat the powder and pomatum from his hair.
This pomatum is extremely fragrant, but is used only for dressing the hair.
The only bit of prudence he showed was to put the pomatum pot into a stocking.
Largess, in the form of odds and ends of cold cream and pomatum, and also of hairpins, was freely distributed among the attendants.
I honor the girl's spirit for not disguising it with starch and pomatum.
There was a remarkably agreeable smell of pomatum in this congregation.
A footman and a groom came next, leaving trails of pomatum in the air.
In the queen's apartment a woman gave a gloss to her hair with pomatum.
