brilliantined

• Those shops would feel as if they stocked archaic diseases as well as unwanted books: upstairs for Poetry and the Black Death, and a smallpox opportunity pullulating beneath those musty bundles of The Cricketer, with small monochrome photographs of brilliantined heroes who strolled between the wickets and who had never heard of the one-day game, let alone Twenty20 and other manifestations of the devil's work.
• The president himself, natty in a navy suit, his black hair brilliantined to a sheen, was the very picture of ease. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
• I have no need to tell you with what throbbings of the heart the Tarasconian prepared himself; with what carefulness he trimmed, brilliantined, and perfumed his rough cap-popper's beard, and how he did not forget -- for everything must be thought of -- to slip a spiky life-preserver and two or three six-shooters into his pockets The ever-obliging prince was coming to this first meeting in the office of interpreter The lady dwelt in the upper part of the town. —  Tartarin of Tarascon
• His black mustache and imperial were waxed and brilliantined. —  The Price She Paid
• Janet could see the brilliantined black heads of the two proprietors bending over their boards, and sometimes they would be lifted to smile at her as she passed. —  The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete

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