Noun: pomate
| Singular | pomate |
| Plural | pomates |
Sample Sentences
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Shee with no Pomate paints her Face... [1625, Alexander Garden, Characters and Essays, page 47:]
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Patient he sits, while Master Puff, with pomate, tongs, and powder-pluff... gives each hair its proper station... [1774, Archibald Bruce, The Kirkiad..., Canto I, 18:]
Nouns inflected like pomate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”) either directly or via slightly earlier English pomatum, from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomatum, pomade, and pomace. See: Latin Nouns '
pōmum'.