pomade

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

He’d showered and powdered his neck — the smell of talc and the pomade he sometimes used to brush his hair sweetening the old leather of the seats.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019

Everyone must have seen them, or heard their muted laughter, or smelled the heavy pomade on their hair—or perhaps failed to see them at all.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

When he received a guest, he stood still, long arms slack, hair pomaded, a portrait of take-it-or-leave-it composure that induced his visitor to cross the room in pursuit of a handshake.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015

His hair was pomaded a la Valentino with some Vaseline he’d found in the medicine chest.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides