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  • noun A paste made or earth or clay, put on the face for therpaeutic or cosmetic purposes.

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Examples

  • One by one they sloughed off their ancient shackles the way a sleeping human might shed a cosmetic mudpack, rising to their feet and stretching mightily in the warming sun.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • They took me to the salon and I had a mudpack [She takes another breath from the gas mask and passes out].

    What is The Muppetrix? Ulysses 2008

  • They took me to the salon and I had a mudpack [She takes another breath from the gas mask and passes out].

    Archive 2008-12-01 Ulysses 2008

  • The side of his head was caked with mud, and I could see a slight red trickle running down the front of the mudpack.

    Above the River's Edge 2010

  • Once again the conservationists are not convinced about the usefulness and safety of treating the Taj Mahal with a mudpack for the second time in six years.

    Multani facepack to beautify Taj Mahal once again 2008

  • Spas are being forced to continually innovate and improve in order to stay ahead of the, ahem, mudpack.

    Super Spas 2006 2006

  • To the Al Jolson ones, we'd put mom's mudpack on our faces as blackface.

    "Parents could be forced to go to special classes to learn to sing their children nursery rhymes." Ann Althouse 2006

  • Legend has it that the men who receive this mudpack will enjoy good health for the coming year.

    Matsuri Report » Japundit Blog 2005

  • She listened; she heard love and loyalty and she felt almost as if she had been wearing a mudpack and had sat in the sun, and the thing had hardened and cracked and all of a sudden, fallen off.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • She listened; she heard love and loyalty and she felt almost as if she had been wearing a mudpack and had sat in the sun, and the thing had hardened and cracked and all of a sudden, fallen off.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

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