pomaded hair. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His hair had been pomaded, and combed with a fashionable side parting. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
He had the blank, pomaded, slightly worried look of the first barber in. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
The boy laughed and hugged him, the dark velvet curls mingling with the pomaded gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
Both women and men wore wigs, which were pomaded thickly with grease and then powdered. From Wordnik.com. [A Bit of Fluff: Late Baroque Fashions] Reference
His hair was pomaded and shining and he was very smartly dressed and clean-cut looking. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Stories] Reference
Smerdyakov dressed up and wearing polished boots, his hair pomaded, and perhaps curled. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
A pomaded, well-oiled machine slightly better than Willie Brown, but no less accountable. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Gonzalez for Mayor : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
His black hair was pomaded to his scalp and his suit had the smart cut of an expensive tailor. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Wars] Reference
They'll roll out a new show called "Mitt Men" in which pomaded businessmen connive to gain power. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | New Romney Ad Bashes Hillary ��� And Uses Fox Debate Footage!] Reference
Early photographs show him as dapper, affecting pomaded hair, cut very short, and often a monocle. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
His pomaded hair was parted down the middle, with two curls at his forehead that looked like commas. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
They will know from the desk — from that vile Mr. Spanning, whose pomaded hair I shall set aflame. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
But the nation's maitre d's are turning out to harbor permissive thoughts beneath their pomaded hair. From Wordnik.com. [If A Movie Usher Answers...] Reference
ANSWER: “A pomaded, well-oiled machine slightly better than Willie Brown, but no less accountable.”. From Wordnik.com. [Meme : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
His hair was parted in the middle, and thickly pomaded to restrain its natural inclination towards curling. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The helpful Earthman was not tall, he was dark and chiselfaced and sleekly pomaded, dapper in blue pajamas with a red zig-zag, a. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
He was short and vast, sun-lamped and pomaded, a man in a buttressed pin-stripe suit with a red carnation withering in the lapel. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
She kept looking round in turn at the rows of pomaded heads in the stalls and then at the seminude women in the boxes, especially at. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Liberally pomaded with the same substance, it erupted in an untidy quiff over his forehead, making him look like a deranged porcupine. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
To thy vain employments, thou becurled and pomaded Absalom!. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference
He pomaded it, from a little tube of grease Hongroise in his vest pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Waifs and Strays Part 1] Reference
Enter Mr. Ed Kinealy, very brown and tight of suit, very black and pomaded of hair. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
Igor Stravinsky is a composer who's always immaculately pomaded but never understood. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Dig - Humor, News + Nightlife] Reference
Valentina Mihailovna put her hand under her little boy's chin and raised his pomaded head. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
Now his head was pomaded and a silver ear-ring glittered in his ear, and altogether he had. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories] Reference
In the lobby of the economics ministry, he stands alongside his pomaded German counterpart. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
To me, sitting in red shirt and pomaded hair at his feet, it seemed as if he were a magician. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
Before dinner-time I pomaded myself once more, and once more put on my tail-coat and necktie. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrents of Spring] Reference
He found Smerdyakov dressed up and wearing polished boots, his hair pomaded, and perhaps curled. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
He was wearing a blue swallow-tail coat, shoes and stockings, and was perfumed and his hair pomaded. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
He was a typical student of the day, his black hair cut in a flattop, the bristles of which were pomaded to stand straight up. From Wordnik.com. [Saberpoint] Reference
He did not like Kolia's befrizzled and pomaded head, and when his eye fell on Kollomietzev, thought, "What a sleek individual.". From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
His face was fresh and rosy, his white-plumed hat, tilted to one side, disclosed his curled and pomaded hair besprinkled with powdery snow. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Though poorly dressed, he always had his head so thickly pomaded that we used to declare that on warm days it melted and ran down his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
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