auricomous

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It would be entertaining to know if this is the foundation of the "auricomous fluids" advertised by hair-dressers!

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  • It would be entertaining to know if this is the foundation of the "auricomous fluids" advertised by hair-dressers! —  Miscellanea
  • She pauses before the glass, smoothing back the ruffled bands of her hair, -- hair of a dark, soft chestnut, silky and luxuriant, -- never polluted, and never, so long as she lives, to be polluted by auricomous cosmetics, far from that delicate darkness, every tint of the colours traditionally dedicated to the locks of Judas. —  Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03
  • The amber-haired women -- palpably indebted to auricomous fluids for the colour of their tresses -- objected to the dark burnished gold of Violet —  Vixen, Volume I.
  • "auricomous" damsel, serving in a tobacconist's shop in the Haymarket when he first found her, and now where was she? —  The Christian A Story
 

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  1. from Latin auricomus, with golden hair, from aurum, gold, + coma, hair: see aurum and coma.
 

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