pomaded
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8.4
- adjective
- /pəˈmeɪdɪd/
:
peinado con pomada
- Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their Pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, their St. Anthony medallions.
- pomaded hair
Examples
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He looked the part of the older-generation Creole French planter, from his pomaded thinning gray hair to his black suit and riding boots.
Fiction book (2002) -
Mr. Gopti smoothed his hand back over his pomaded hair.
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His pomaded dark hair, which varied in color from week to week, hung in strands over his forehead.
Fiction book (1993) -
The funeral director could have been from central casting, with his immaculate black suit, crisp white shirt, and pomaded, painstakingly combed hair.
Fiction book (1999) -
Beneath the hat, my hair was pomaded, powdered, and pulled back into a ponytail by an ornate silver clasp.
Fiction book (1994) -
His successor is a ruddy-cheeked bear of a figure with a pomaded part to his hair, a rich radio voice, and a preference for the kind of roomy Western suits you expect on a regional sales rep.
Blog text (2) -
Xi is a ruddy-cheeked bear of a figure with a pomaded part to his hair, a rich radio voice, and a preference for the kind of roomy Western suits you expect on a regional sales rep.
Blog text (19) -
Granting he was an even 50, Hugo Sencillo prided himself on how full and black his head of pomaded hair remained, the mustache too.
Fiction book (2000) -
Against the backdrop of an impossibly rococo arcadia, an assortment of beribboned, bewigged, pomaded, and pantalooned twerps and nincompoops spoon and sport.
Blog text (32) -
In the harsh glare of the overhead lights, Bradshaw couldn't see Oglethorpe's face, only the back of his dark, pomaded head.
Synonyms
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5.7
People smooth hair and make it shiny using gel or oil
Antonyms
How Shiny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pomaded comes from pomade, a hair ointment, and that word goes back to Latin pomum 'apple' because early hair creams were scented with or made from apples. So, pomaded hair is hair treated with pomade to look smooth and shiny.