pomaded
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They walk the streets pomaded, braided, wearing strangely arranged hairdos meant to call attention to themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
A bantam alpha, gut sucked into his chest, shoulders padded out like a linebacker, hair center-parted and pomaded back; the little creep who makes nothing but takes a fee on it anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
Our hair is pomaded with sweat and stone dust.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019
Stefano, 9, is rocker-ready with his hair dyed red and pomaded up into a Mohawk.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2018
His hair was pomaded a la Valentino with some Vaseline he’d found in the medicine chest.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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