cerate

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For this purpose animal fats, washed lard, simple cerate, cold cream, and the like are to be preferred to cosmoline and vaseline.

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And there were the accessories—hats, caps, bonnets, gloves, fans, parasols, veils, jabots, collars, aigrettes, boots, shoes, slippers, powders, paints, cerates, massage-cream—ad infinitum.

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In order to fix the cosmetics, it was necessary to anoint the face and breast with fresh cerate.

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The passage of air from A to C depends upon the grinding and lubrication of the joint at C. Lubricating Taps.—For general purposes resin cerate answers very well.

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Their smart upon the mind is like cantharides on the skin but often requires something more than a cabbage leaf and cerate to heal it.

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