Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mineral jelly .
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Examples
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One time she got tickets to an art exhibit full of petroleum-jelly sculptures.
The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010
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This year I'm particularly proud to announce that the winner is one of the hardest-working ladies to come out of my school, Gal Friday, who won the pageant by portraying a super-tanned, insanely-bewigged, petroleum-jelly brandishing, teeth-whitening-stripped yes, she actually used whitening strips a week before the showpageant professional with a simultaneously glamourous and horrifying smile.
Miss Coney Island 2008 Burlesque Daily 2008
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This year I'm particularly proud to announce that the winner is one of the hardest-working ladies to come out of my school, Gal Friday, who won the pageant by portraying a super-tanned, insanely-bewigged, petroleum-jelly brandishing, teeth-whitening-stripped yes, she actually used whitening strips a week before the showpageant professional with a simultaneously glamourous and horrifying smile.
Archive 2008-09-01 Burlesque Daily 2008
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For Hart to even let the word "strategy" slip past his petroleum-jelly slithered lips, oh please spare us.
Gary Hart reviews Barack Obama's book. Ann Althouse 2006
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