Definition of Coldcream

1. Noun. A cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin.

Exact synonyms: Cold Cream, Face Cream, Vanishing Cream
Generic synonyms: Cream, Emollient, Ointment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coldcream

cold virus
cold war
cold wave
cold waves
cold weather
cold work
cold working
coldblood
coldblooded
coldbloodedly
coldbloodedness
coldcock
coldcocked
coldcocking
coldcocks
coldcream (current term)
colde
colder
coldest
coldhearted
coldheartedly
coldheartedness
coldie
coldies
coldish
coldlike
coldly
coldness
coldnesses
coldproof

Literary usage of Coldcream

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... Pad- Colchonero, quilt maker, mattress maker, »colchoneta, bed cover, conforter, bed quilt, •coldcream (perf. ..."

2. British Farmer's Magazine (1874)
"Mr. AH Longman (Herts) gave 215 gs. for Fawsley (the solitary specimen of the Rosy tribe), and a good coldcream heifer, too, for three figures, ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"Pudding," " comfort," "coldcream," and "rail" have become French within our generation, while we have borrowed back rU-a-vi», ennui, protégé, chignon, ..."

4. Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: From the Days by Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton (1886)
"... downright funny everywhere, and supernaturally illogical." Mathews returned to Paris in 1865, and played Sir Charles coldcream (according to the Paris ..."

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