lip-salve

Her beauty was not created by paint and lip-salve nor was it the illusory beauty of theatrical make-believe.

'A Stange Eventful History' 2009

Sheila began to hate women who used lip-salve, and silently recorded a vow that never, never, never would she wear anybody's hair but her own.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Bluebell observed that her decorative preparations were restricted to a dab of violet-powder on her nose, and a slight application of lip-salve.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

They make a complicated verbal noise, but all I am able to translate from it is, that a something called lip-salve can be bought in some particular shop one penny cheaper than it can in a certain other shop.

Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

Tall and what is known as willowy, with dark chestnut hair, very broad, dark eyebrows, very soft, quick eyes, and a pretty mouth, -- when she did not accentuate it with lip-salve, -- she had more sheer quiet vitality than any girl I ever saw.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

He seems to suppose that every clown beneath his paint and lip-salve is moribund and knows it (though in verity, I am told, clowns are as cheerful a class of men as any other), that the fairer the fruit's rind and the more delectable its bloom, the closer are packed the ashes within it.

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

With some women, it is only their lip-salve and face powder that come off.

Set in Silver 1901

"He _does_ need just a touch of lip-salve and a little black under the eyes, don't you think so?"

The Limit Ada Leverson 1897

"I should be so pleased -- if you'd put on just a little less lip-salve and not quite so much of that bluish powder."

The Limit Ada Leverson 1897

Indeed, she did not quite recover her equanimity until she had looked over the cards in the hall and put on a great deal more powder and lip-salve, after which she told her mother perhaps she was right, and in any case she, Flora, would always do what she asked, and would always follow her dear, dear Mummy's advice.

The Limit Ada Leverson 1897