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

Instead, “People getting ready to do things” is spelled out in egg yolk, besmirching the virginal purity of its white satin support; and “It’s only vanishing cream” is translucent shellac disappearing against deathly black.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Literature

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

From Literature

“This stuff was like vanishing cream,” says Harris’s daughter, Rhonda Farrell.

From Washington Post

“The stuff was like vanishing cream” on an inoperable tumor.

From Washington Post