Definition of Cold-cream

1. Verb. Put cold cream on one's face.

Generic synonyms: Apply, Put On

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cold-cream

colchicine
colchicines
colchicum
colchicums
colchine
colcothar
colcothars
cold
cold-blooded
cold-blooded animal
cold-bloodedly
cold-bloodedness
cold-calling
cold-cathode
cold-cock
cold-cream (current term)
cold-cuts
cold-eyed
cold-hearted
cold-heartedly
cold-heartedness
cold-reactive antibody
cold-rigor point
cold-sensitive mutant
cold-short
cold-shoulder
cold-water flat
cold abscess
cold abscesses
cold agglutination

Literary usage of Cold-cream

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"... two spoonfuls of sweet oil, and a piece of spermaceti of the size of half a butternut, and turn all into a small box. 700. Cold Cream. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"There are several essential requisites to a perfect cold cream. ... A cold cream having these characteristics may be obtained by exercising proper care in ..."

3. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"Angustus had rubbed my nose over with cold cream, and then he had torn off a bit of my handkerchief, and cold-creamed that too, and then he put that on my ..."

4. American Druggist (1887)
"Cold Cream. White Wax 1230 grains. Spermaceti 1280 " Oil of Almond, ... Vaseline Cold Cream. White Wax 1150 Spermaceti 1150 Vaseline 6J Oil of Almond, ..."

5. The Diseases of children by Fleetwood Churchill (1858)
"... we must adopt some means to relieve it, and to restrain child from adding to the disfigurement by scratching or picking «If. Cold cream, oil, ..."

6. The House and Home: A Practical Book by Lyman Abbott (1896)
"To prevent severe sunburn, rub a little cold cream into the skin before exposing ... Thanks to the cold cream, much of the powder will stick without being ..."

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