vanishing cream

American  

noun

1. a cosmetic similar to cold cream but less oily, applied usually to the face and neck as a base, night cream, or moisturizer.

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vanishing cream British  

noun

1. a cosmetic cream that is colourless once applied, used as a foundation for powder or as a cleansing or moisturizing cream

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Example Sentences

The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in.

From Time Magazine Archive

Health: Women continue to buy into fad diets and products such as vanishing cream.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream at him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like trees and lemon vanishing cream, and Nu Nile Hair Oil and flecks of Sen-Sen.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Her hands, treated every night with vanishing cream, fluttered around us, stroking, rubbing.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides