pomatums

"The portrait goes far beyond all that wigs, powders and pomatums have been able to effect over the last twenty years."

Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

Mr. Girt, in the midst of his exhibition of memorandum books, smelling bottles, tooth-pick cases, and pocket mirrours; with washes to immortalize the skin, powders becoming to all countenances, and pomatums to give natural tresses to old age, suddenly recollected Camilla.

Camilla 2008

His valet made a fortune out of his wardrobe: his toilet-table was covered with as many pomatums and essences as ever were employed by an old beauty: he had tried, in order to give himself a waist, every girth, stay, and waistband then invented.

Vanity Fair 2006

At half-past ten, after coffee, the brilliant warriors of the cavalry were ready; their clarions rung to horse, their banners were given to the wind, their shirt-collars were exquisitely starched, and the whole air was scented with the odors of their pomatums and pocket-handkerchiefs.

The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

At half-past ten, after coffee, the brilliant warriors of the cavalry were ready; their clarions rung to horse, their banners were given to the wind, their shirt-collars were exquisitely starched, and the whole air was scented with the odors of their pomatums and pocket-handkerchiefs.

Burlesques 2006

Various similar anise combinations are largely used in perfuming soaps, pomatums and other toilet articles.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

Powder, paint, gold-dust and silver-dust, pomatums, cosmetics, are all perfectly appropriate where the ideal of life is to keep up a false show of beauty after the true bloom is wasted by dissipation.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

His valet made a fortune out of his wardrobe: his toilet-table was covered with as many pomatums and essences as ever were employed by an old beauty: he had tried, in order to give himself a waist, every girth, stay, and waistband then invented.

III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy 1917

Page 111 pomatums made of beef's marrow and castor oil and scented with patchouli; hair was done into marvelous plaits and puffs.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

My only becoming occupations is to help young flaunting pagins to brush and comb and titiwate theirselves into whitening and suppulchres, and leave the young men to think that there an't a bit of padding in it nor no pinching ins nor fillings out nor pomatums nor deceits nor earthly wanities -- an't it, miss!

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892