pomade
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Zinc works for both ultraviolet rays and icy winds but some athletes prefer specialized products such as Dermatone, a pomade that comes in round tins like shoe polish and promises to deter frostbite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
Because bathing kiwis in a dressing tames their fuzz, just like pomade smooths frizzed hair on a humid day.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2021
If Dad has yet to find his preferred hair product, he might enjoy this pomade, which was purportedly used by the likes of Elvis Presley and James Dean.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2020
That prison soap must be suffused with argan oil – either that or Robbins’ scalp secretes pomade, given his lustrous locks are more solid than those securing the cell doors.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2020
Why is he wearing pomade on his hair?
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
They walk the streets pomaded, braided, wearing strangely arranged hairdos meant to call attention to themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
A bantam alpha, gut sucked into his chest, shoulders padded out like a linebacker, hair center-parted and pomaded back; the little creep who makes nothing but takes a fee on it anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
Stefano, 9, is rocker-ready with his hair dyed red and pomaded up into a Mohawk.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2018
Her male foil in the film, Gary Cooper, was by contrast something of a pomaded stiff, uncomfortably awaiting the introduction of the talking pictures that would usher in his mellow yet authoritative drawl.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
His hair was pomaded a la Valentino with some Vaseline he’d found in the medicine chest.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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