▪ I. † poˈmade, n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[= med.L. pōmāta (Du Cange), obs. F. pommade (1514 in Godef., from Gascony or Bearn), Pr. pomada cider: see pome n.1, -ade 1.]
A drink made of apples; cider.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 412 May no pyement ne pomade ne presiouse drynkes Moyste me to þe fulle ne my þurst slake. |
▪ II. pomade, n.2
(pəʊˈmeɪd, ‖ pɔmad)
Also 6–7 pomado, 7 pomada, -ata, pommade.
[a. F. pommade (in this sense) = Sp. pomada, It. pomata. See pomatum, and cf. prec.]
A scented ointment (in which apples are said to have been originally an ingredient) for application to the skin; now used esp. for the skin of the head and for dressing the hair.
pomade divine, name of a healing salve.
| 1562 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. ii. 11 To make a sweete Suet called in Frenche and Italian Pommade in latine pomatum. 1598 Florio, Pomada, Pomata, a pomado to supple ones lips, lip-salue. 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 264/2 [Recipe for] an excellent spanishe Pomado. 1611 Cotgr., Pommade, Pomatum, or Pomata (an oyntment). 1655 tr. Com. Hist. Francion x. 28, I have a Pomada to make fair the skin. 1657 Physical Dict., Pomada, or pomata, a sweet smelling salve made of apples. 1756 Foote Eng. fr. Paris ii. Wks. 1799 I. 122 Your washes, paints, pomades. 1799 M. Underwood Dis. Children (ed. 4) III. 107 A cold..usually requires nothing more than a little pomade divine..to be put to the nostrils. 1874 Burnand My time vi. 48 He was partial to sweet-smelling pomade. |
Hence poˈmade v. trans. [cf. F. pommader (18th c. in Godef.)], to anoint or dress with pomade: whence poˈmaded ppl. a.
| 1889 Mrs. Oliphant Poor Gentlem. xliv, A powdered and pomaded woman like Mrs. Sam. Crockford. 1893 Vizetelly Glances Back I. xxi. 411 The bachelors..pomaded their hair with great liberality. |