单词 | superfluous hair |
释义 | > as lemmassuperfluous hair b. Designating hair growing on the face or body, usually of a woman, which is considered excessive and unattractive, and is often removed on this account. Chiefly in superfluous hair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [noun] > superfluous superfluous hair1597 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cccix. 728 Being often annointed or laide on, it taketh away superfluous haires. 1752 B. Thornton Have at You All 20 Feb. 130 I shall sell Mrs. Giles's fine compound (at a guinea an ounce) to take off all superfluous hair. 1764 S. Foote Patron i. 21 My coral for cutting of teeth, my potions, my lotions, my pregnancy-drops, with my paste for superfluous hairs? 1800 in C. W. Cunnington Feminine Attitudes (1935) ii. 44 I shall sell a compound to take off all superfluous hair. 1873 Young Englishwoman Aug. 414/1 Will you kindly tell us..whether you know of any depilatory that may be safely used for the removal of superfluous hair? 1898 J. F. Schamberg Compend Dis. Skin 198 The cases in which treatment is usually demanded are women with superfluous facial hair-growth. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise iv. 69 Do you suffer from superfluous hair? 1939 Life 11 Sept. 6/3 (advt.) Use phelactine depilatory. Removes superfluous facial hair quickly. 1959 Woman 5 Sept. 18/1 The only permanent way of getting rid of superfluous hair is by electrolysis. 2009 Daily Mail (London) (Nexis) 21 Sept. How clearly I remember the first time superfluous hair ruled, and ruined, my life. < as lemmas |
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