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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
brilliantine .
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Examples
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Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth.
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Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth.
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Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth.
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Slowly at first, and then with increasing confidence, Ruby described Frankie, the man with the brilliantined hair.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Oh … and David Wilcox was there, standing beside the burly, cold-eyed man with the expensive suit and brilliantined hair.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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For all his brilliantined resemblance to one of J.C. Leyendecker's Arrow C.llar ads, Mr. Raabe keys his panache to his real passion: the music.
The Wunderbar Max Raabe Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010
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Maher by contrast is all slickness and centrality — brilliantined, bespoke, with that pampered chuckle and long, connoisseurial nose.
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Slowly at first, and then with increasing confidence, Ruby described Frankie, the man with the brilliantined hair.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Maher by contrast is all slickness and centrality — brilliantined, bespoke, with that pampered chuckle and long, connoisseurial nose.
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The pants fit equally well over legs that were like tree stumps, and his polished shoes and brilliantined, combed-back hair both reflected the light from the hanging globes above.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
qroqqa commented on the word brilliantined
'Do you seriously imagine a girl like that
could be interested in an ageing, brilliantined stick insect like you?'
—Sybil to Basil, Fawlty Towers
November 11, 2008