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Definition of Pomading
1. pomade [v] - See also: pomade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomading
Literary usage of Pomading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"This collective gift, called pomading, was put there, I was told, so that the
Bagobo would get rich; but I did not observe that it was touched during the ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"Enter LITTLE JOHN fighting with the SHERIFF AM men ; WARMAN pomading him. » LIT.
JOHN. Warman, stand off! Tit tattle, tell not me what ye can do : The goods ..."
3. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"But the outstanding feature of male coiffure during the latter part of this period
was the adoption of the practice of liberally oiling or pomading the hair ..."
4. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"Their delineation, of the sun is with a cock in its centre, and the moon by a
hare pomading rice ia a mortar, as in the Plate of sugar-hares iiv VoL IV. ..."
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