Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to put coldcream on (one's face).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin
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Still to forgive it, divine my lickle wiffey, and everybody knows you do look lovely in your invinsibles, Eulogia, a perfect apposition with the coldcream, Assoluta, from Boileau’s I always use in the wards after I am burned a rich egg and derive the greatest benefit, sign of the cause.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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