pomatumed

Updated: June 1, 2025

The trade could hardly have been an unprosperous one in those days of perukes and powder and pomatumed edifices of hair, and when, moreover, 'the Garden' was a not unfashionable locality. The new-born was baptized on the 14th May following, in the parish church of St. The registers recording these important events are still extant.

Dutton Cook - Art in England: Notes and Studies

For hours the same unbroken tide rolled in women, men, and children from all parts of the world, all who chose, all who passed that way. As a result, the crowd was singularly mixed: there were beggars in rags beside neat /bourgeois/, peasants of either sex, well dressed ladies, servants with bare hair, young girls with bare feet, and others with pomatumed hair and foreheads bound with ribbons.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4

I don't find it at merry supper-tables, where half a dozen ugly men with pomatumed heads are rapidly growing uglier still with heat and wine; not when I come away and walk through these squalid black streets, and go out into the Forum and see a few old battered stone posts standing there like gnawed bones stuck into the earth.

Henry James - Roderick Hudson

The consequences might have been serious had the fire spread to the pomatumed structure below, but one of the President's aides sprang to the rescue and smothered the burning plumes between the palms of his hands before any harm came to the young lady. Every Tuesday while Congress was in session Washington received visitors from three to four o'clock. These receptions were known as his levees.

Henry Jones Ford - Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism