pomade

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

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

His thick, steel-gray hair was swept back Gatsby style and lacquered with what looked like pomade.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2020

The pillow smells of his lime pomade and she breathes it in, sobbing . . . . . . until, drugged by weeping’s opiates, she falls asleep.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Our hair is pomaded with sweat and stone dust.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019

Stefano, 9, is rocker-ready with his hair dyed red and pomaded up into a Mohawk.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2018

But everybody knew what “Soaphead” meant—the tight, curly hair that took on and held a sheen and wave when pomaded with soap lather.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison