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Cold cream   /koʊld krim/   Listen
Cold cream

noun
1.
A cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin.  Synonyms: coldcream, face cream, vanishing cream.






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"Cold cream" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked reasonable, but they believed I knew more about it than anybody, but as we had to pack up the show and make the next town they wouldn't lynch me till the next day. Pa got me to put cold cream on his stings, and then he said, ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck

... housework, if your hands become chapped or red, mix corn meal and vinegar into a stiff paste and apply to the hand two or three times a day, after washing them in hot water, then let dry without wiping, and rub with glycerine. At night use cold cream, and wear gloves. ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... clear and healthy you should massage it with cold cream and rub gently but thoroughly. This rubbing or massage quickens circulation, strengthens the little capillary veins and brings that beautiful pink glow that ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... I have had you right with me," smiled Anne, who was seated at a dressing table taking off her make-up with cold cream. She pointed to a photograph that the Phi Sigma Tau had had taken the ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower

... stocking. Gertie had a country-bred horror of holey stockings. She darned the hole, yawning, her aching feet pressed against the smooth, cool leg of the iron bed. That done, she had had the colossal courage to wash her face, slap cold cream on it, and push back ...
— Buttered Side Down • Edna Ferber

... minutes before the time for descending to the breakfast-table. She was dressed, and sat before the glass, smoothing her hair, and applying the contents of a pot of cold cream to her forehead between-whiles. With perfect sincerity she repeated that she could not believe it. She had only trusted Evan once since their visit to Beckley; and that this once he should, when treated as a man, turn traitor to their common interests, and prove himself ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



Words linked to "Cold cream" :   cream, emollient, vanishing cream, face cream, ointment, coldcream



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