unguent

Example Sentences

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“It would be irrational to assume that unguent cones did not have a scent or that their function wasn’t to perfume its wearer,” she said.

From New York Times

But the discovery also potentially undermines another leading hypothesis about the cones: that they were perfumed lumps of unguent that slowly melted in the sun to perfume and cleanse the body, both literally and spiritually.

From Science Magazine

It’s the opposite of an unguent for what ails the world today.

From The New Yorker

A down-at-heel factory manager in ‘Nitrogen’ commissions him to identify the unguent that renders lipstick ‘kiss proof’.

From Nature

He also teamed up with Balkrishna, whom he met at a gurukul, and the two men began peddling their homemade herbal pills and unguents from a modest clinic that would eventually grow into Patanjali.

From New York Times