pomade
/pəˈmeɪd
/ /pəˈmɑːd/noun [mass noun]
A scented ointment or oil for dressing the hair.Style your hair with a quasi-Mohawk, by adding pomade to emphasize the hair in the middle of your head so that it sticks up more than the rest of your hair....
- Put on a skinny headband, then tease the back of the hair with pomade or hair spray.
- Well, don't go putting pomade in your hair, Dave, but yeah, just boogie it up some.
verb [with object] (often as adjective pomaded)
Apply pomade to: a perfumed and pomaded man...
- Your barnet was pomaded and with the flick of a comb, your parting stayed in place - even if it did give your scalp a covering which would have stopped bullets in the trenches.
- The main attraction is just plain old proverbial eye candy in the form of glossy-lipped, apple-cheeked, exfoliated pretty boy punims peeking out from perfectly pomaded locks.
- Her boyfriend was the perfect accessory, however - a rocker type: pomaded hair, white t-shirt, blue jeans, tats up and down his left sleeve.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French pommade, based on Latin pomum 'apple' (from which it was originally made).
Rhymes
- accelerograph
- accelerometer
- accension
- accent
- accented
- accentless
- accent neume
- accentology
- accentor
- accentual
- accentualist
- accentuality
- accentually
- accentuate
- accentuation
- accentuator
- accept
- acceptability
- acceptable
- acceptableness
- acceptably
- acceptance
- acceptance letter
- acceptance of persons
- acceptance speech