pomade
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We were close enough that I could smell the pomade coming off that immaculate pompadour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
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
‘You won’t find it in your books,’ my brother would playfully taunt me as he prepared to go to a party by freezing the crest of the wave in his hair with sticky pomade.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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
Vulnerable he may be, but when the series began, this delicate flower was encased within a pomaded veneer of self-obsession and materialism, a lack of social grace and a distinctly adolescent approach to women.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
They were everywhere—the dark glasses, the ironed pants, the pomaded hair.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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