calamine
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- noun
- /ˈkæləmɪn/
:
loción de calamina
- Claude was shirtless, his suspenders dangling at his sides, and a couple of ugly poison ivy splotches covered with calamine lotion on his back.
- calamine lotion
- pink calamine
- apply calamine
And so Jim comes out and he's covered in calamine lotion from having fallen in a Poison Ivy patch somewhere.
- And so Jim comes out and he's covered in calamine lotion from having fallen in a Poison Ivy patch somewhere.
Examples
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More calamine lotion for the poison oak has just arrived.
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Look, I brought you calamine lotion.
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- Would you like some more Calamine lotion, dear?
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We got calamine lotion in my room.
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You have any calamine lotion?
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Also, have plenty of Calamine lotion on hand.
Blog text (25) -
She smelled of calamine lotion and hot coffee.
Fiction book (1995) -
And so Jim comes out and he's covered in calamine lotion from having fallen in a Poison Ivy patch somewhere.
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Three times a day, Teddy would patiently swab her hands with Calamine lotion and then tenderly position a cotton ball between each of her fingers to keep them from chafing against each other.
Fiction book (1990) -
You should apply calamine lotion to relieve the itching from the rash.
Synonyms
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A liquid medicine you put on skin to ease itching from rashes, bites, or mild sunburn
Compounds
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A liquid medicine you put on skin to ease itching from rashes, bites, or mild sunburn
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word calamine for the pink lotion comes from the mineral calamine, because long ago people ground the pale, pink ore into a powder to 'soothe' the skin. So when you use calamine lotion, the name reminds you it began as the powdered mineral used to calm irritation.