depilatory
adjective
capable of removing hair.
depilatories
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pluralof depilatory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A curious account of hair-erasing, and why people have tried clamshell razors, lasers, lye depilatories, tweezers, waxes, threading and electrolysis to try and free themselves from hairiness.
From Economist ● Dec. 3, 2015
And whole categories of ads are barred from The New Yorker's pages, including ads for vitamin tablets, slimming devices and depilatories.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 20, 2015
No matter what expensive and complex weapons are used — razor blades, electric shavers, tweezers, waxing, depilatories, electrolysis — hair, like crab grass, always grows back and eventually wins.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2012
Neet, first hair-remover to be marketed in cream form, had a 1928 sale equal to half that of all other depilatories combined, and earned more than $200,000 in the six months ending June 30, 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recipes for hair-dyes, depilatories, eye-lotions, tooth-powders, soaps, lip-salves, ointments, cosmetics, skin-preservers, wart-destroyers, pearl-powders, rouges, are followed up with sound advice about craft, fraud, force, feigned passion, entangling manœuvres, crocodile tears, and secrecy in self-indulgence.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
