vellication

“At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

“The locks are dyed dun, frizzled, and greased; the Widads or learned men remove them, and none but paupers leave them in their natural state; the mustachios are clipped close, the straggling whisker is carefully plucked, and the pile — erroneously considered impure — is removed either by vellication, or by passing the limbs through the fire.”

First footsteps in East Africa

“In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol. ix.”

Arabian nights. English

“[FN#376] This is the popular idea of a bushy "veil of nature" in women: it is always removed by depilatories and vellication.”

Arabian nights. English

“The locks are dyed dun, frizzled, and greased; the Widads or learned men remove them, and none but paupers leave them in their natural state; the mustachios are clipped close, the straggling whisker is carefully plucked, and the pile -- erroneously considered impure -- is removed either by vellication, or by passing the limbs through the fire.”

First Footsteps in East Africa

“Here the pleasureable idea of playfulness coincides with the vellication; and there is no voluntary exertion used to diminish the sensation, as there would be, if a child should endeavour to tickle himself.”

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

“376 This is the popular idea of a bushy “veil of nature” in women: it is always removed by depilatories and vellication.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night