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Definition of depilatory in English: depilatoryadjective dɪˈpɪlət(ə)ridəˈpɪləˌtɔri Used to remove unwanted hair. Example sentencesExamples - In the ‘mountain humbled’ towns of the Andes, he stumbles upon a scheme to import the sap of a bobohuariza tree and market it as an organic depilatory treatment.
- Developed and tested in a government lab 10 years before, the dehairing system removed hair and dirt from beef carcasses by spraying them with depilatory chemicals as they moved through a massive chamber.
- According to beauty experts, the number of men seeking the painful depilatory treatment has soared 10-fold over the past five years.
- The cream removes unwanted hair to the root, unlike other depilatory creams which merely melt it to just below the skin's surface.
- The day before surgery, hair was removed with a depilatory cream, if necessary.
nounPlural depilatories dɪˈpɪlət(ə)ridəˈpɪləˌtɔri A cream or lotion for removing unwanted hair. Example sentencesExamples - Many hand and body lotions, facial creams, soaps and depilatories contain honey, which can be used on sensitive skin.
- Shaving and depilatories remain dependable backups, but laser hair removal is the most high-tech way to zap unwanted hair.
- The usual remedies for unwanted hair include plucking, shaving, waxing or chemical depilatories, but all of them are temporary, as none damage the hair follicle.
- If this is a concern for you, remove the hair with wax, depilatories or electrolysis.
- Most people are familiar with shaving, bleaching, plucking and depilatories, which chemically dissolve hair.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin depilatorius, from depilat- 'stripped of hair', from the verb depilare (see depilate). pile from Old English: Three different Latin words lie behind three different types of pile. Pile meaning ‘heap’ comes via Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’. The association with money in make one's pile is from the phrase ‘pile of wealth’ (Shakespeare Henry VIII: What piles of wealth hath he accumulated To his own portion?). Pile meaning a ‘heavy post’ driven into the ground to support a superstructure was pīl ‘dart, arrow’, and ‘pointed stake’ in Old English. It was adopted early into Germanic languages from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’. The pile of a carpet was first recorded in the sense ‘downy feather’. It comes from Latin pilus ‘hair’, found also in depilatory (early 17th century). The current sense of pile dates from the mid 16th century.
Definition of depilatory in US English: depilatoryadjectivedəˈpiləˌtôrēdəˈpɪləˌtɔri Used to remove unwanted hair. Example sentencesExamples - According to beauty experts, the number of men seeking the painful depilatory treatment has soared 10-fold over the past five years.
- Developed and tested in a government lab 10 years before, the dehairing system removed hair and dirt from beef carcasses by spraying them with depilatory chemicals as they moved through a massive chamber.
- In the ‘mountain humbled’ towns of the Andes, he stumbles upon a scheme to import the sap of a bobohuariza tree and market it as an organic depilatory treatment.
- The day before surgery, hair was removed with a depilatory cream, if necessary.
- The cream removes unwanted hair to the root, unlike other depilatory creams which merely melt it to just below the skin's surface.
noundəˈpiləˌtôrēdəˈpɪləˌtɔri A cream or lotion for removing unwanted hair. Example sentencesExamples - Most people are familiar with shaving, bleaching, plucking and depilatories, which chemically dissolve hair.
- The usual remedies for unwanted hair include plucking, shaving, waxing or chemical depilatories, but all of them are temporary, as none damage the hair follicle.
- Many hand and body lotions, facial creams, soaps and depilatories contain honey, which can be used on sensitive skin.
- If this is a concern for you, remove the hair with wax, depilatories or electrolysis.
- Shaving and depilatories remain dependable backups, but laser hair removal is the most high-tech way to zap unwanted hair.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin depilatorius, from depilat- ‘stripped of hair’, from the verb depilare (see depilate). |