How To Use Pomatum In A Sentence
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The extra money had gone, I couldn't exactly say how, in sundry "trifling expenditures," such as pomatum, a scarf-pin, and a steel chain for my waistcoat, all of which it had seemed no harm to indulge in, especially as they were very cheap, under my altered circumstances.
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
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In very elaborate and unnatural styles of dressing the hair, and to cause it to remain in curl or to retain its position during dancing, or violent exercise, bandoline and cosmetique or hard pomatum are the articles commonly employed in fashionable life.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
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For pomatums of other odors it is only necessary to substitute rose, jasmine, tubereuse, and others, in place of the acacia pomatum in the above formulæ.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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If he visits her when she is dressed, and perceives the least impropriety in her coeffure, he insists upon adjusting it with his own hands: if he sees a curl, or even a single hair amiss, he produces his comb, his scissars, and pomatum, and sets it to rights with the dexterity of a professed friseur.
Travels through France and Italy
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His hair in front was well loaded with pomatum, frizzled or craped and powdered.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
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There were pins and needles, yarn and thread, that have taken the place of the wilder thorn and fibre; all kinds of small hardware; looking-glasses in lacquered frames; beads of sorts, cowries and reels of cotton; pots of odorous pomatum and shea-butter nuts; feathers of the plantain-bird and country snuff-boxes of a chestnut-like fruit (a strychnine?) from which the powder is inhaled, _more majorum_, through a quill; physic-nuts (_tiglium_, or croton), a favourite but painful native remedy; horns of the goat and antelope, possibly intended for fetish 'medicine;' blue-stone, colcothar and other drugs.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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The essence of lilac is obtained either by the process of maceration, or enfleurage with grease, and afterwards treating the pomatum thus formed with rectified spirit, in the same manner as previously described for cassie; the odor so much resembles tubereuse, as to be frequently used to adulterate the latter, the demand for tubereuse being at all times greater than the supply.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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There were also "jessamy" gloves -- namely, kid gloves perfumed with jessamine; a black velvet mask; a superb painted fan; a box of patches, another of violet powder, another of rouge, and a fourth of pomatum; one of the
The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)
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When these anchovies are what is termed potted, it implies that the fish have been pounded into the consistency of a paste, and then placed in flat pots, somewhat similar in shape to those used for pomatum.
The Book of Household Management
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But his idea of decoration goes in the direction of a plaster of "tola" pomatum over his body, and above all a hat.
Travels in West Africa
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[29] There was concocted in Gerard's day an ointment with the pulpe of Apples, and swine's grease, and rosewater, which was used to beautifie the face, and to take away the roughnesse of the skin, and which was called in the shops "pomatum," from the apples, "poma," whereof it was prepared.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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When I randomly opened the first volume in the Charing Cross bookshop, this is what I read: Her complexion was exquisitely fair; and it was a disadvantage to her beauty that the fashions of the day obliged her to hide the color and texture of her fine silver tresses under a load of powder and pomatum.
The most unusual book in your house.
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Because want was high, and because these wigs consumed a lot of resources, these headdresses were fabricated out of pretty sketchy stuff: “pomatum, artificial pads, and hair procured from corpses.”
KN | Kitsune Noir » Lady Gaga’s Next Look
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The applicant stared; grinned at Newman Noggs, who appeared highly entertained; looked slightly round the shop, as if in depreciation of the pomatum pots and other articles of stock; took his pipe out of his mouth and gave a very loud whistle; and then put it in again, and walked out.
Nicholas Nickleby
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But shorn of his falling hair, and without a streak of paint on his cheeks, verily his heart might be found to die within him, before furies with faces fiery with rouge, and heads horrent with pomatum -- till instinctively he strove to roll himself up in the Persian carpet, and there prayed for deliverance to his tutelary gods.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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His hair in front was well loaded with pomatum, frizzled or creped, and powdered; the ear locks had undergone the same process.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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The Apple (_pomum_) has left its mark in the language in the word "pomatum," which, originally an ointment made of Apples, is now an ointment in which Apples have no part.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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The hair of Withers was radiant with pomatum, in these days of down, and he wore kid gloves and smelt of the water of Cologne.
Dombey and Son
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B] [Footnote A: Joseph Ashbury, Master of the Revels, in Ireland, actor, and manager of the theatre in Dublin.] [Footnote B: Chetwood adds in a footnote: "The composition for blackening the face are ivory-black and pomatum, which is, with some pains, clean'd with fresh butter.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
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They seem to be a quite extraordinary people; Lord Granville writes from Petersburg that Lady Wodehouse's Russian maid was found eating the contents of one of her ladyship's dressing-table pots - it was castor oil pomatum for the hair!
Fiancée
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Early wigs were made of black horsehair, dressed daily with powder and a scented ointment called pomatum, which had ruinous effects on the wearer's clothes.
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Candide followed the old woman, though without taking courage, to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat bed, with a suit of clothes hanging by it; and set victuals and drink before him.
Candide
