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emollients

n. (plural of emollient English)

Usage examples of "emollients".

Their kid leather clutch bags stuffed with crumpled 1955 newsprint, and their morocco-leather-covered diaries with gold-leafed, onionskin pages, remained unopened, un confided in-well, they had had nothing to confide, for their emotional lives had been as stinted of the luxuries of passion and personal dramas as their cool and shallow bathwater had been bereft of emollients and scents.

Perfumed, depilated, moist with emollients, wearing kohl around her eyes, Victoria let Lefty look upon her.