brilliantining

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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