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brilliantined

brilliantined is the simple past and past participle of brilliantine.

Meaning of brilliantine

Verb

brilliantine (third-person singular simple present brilliantines, present participle brilliantining, simple past and past participle brilliantined)

  1. (dated) To apply brilliantine to the hair.
    • And the waiter, of course, dips his fingers into the gravy—his nasty, greasy fingers which he is for ever running through his brilliantined hair.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC

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Questions about brilliantined

What is brilliantined the simple past and past participle of?
Brilliantined is the simple past and past participle of brilliantine.

Words near brilliantined in the dictionary

  1. brilliant green
  2. brilliant rummynose tetra
  3. brilliant rummynose tetras
  4. brillianted
  5. brilliantine
  6. brilliantined
  7. brilliantines
  8. brillianting
  9. brilliantining
  10. brilliantly
  11. brilliantness

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