COLD CREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cold cream mean? 

• COLD CREAM (noun)
  The noun COLD CREAM has 1 sense:

1. a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin

  Familiarity information: COLD CREAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLD CREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cold cream; coldcream; face cream; vanishing cream

Hypernyms ("cold cream" is a kind of...):

cream; emollient; ointment (toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin)

 Context examples 

Meg had an extra row of little curlpapers across her forehead, Jo had copiously anointed her afflicted face with cold cream, Beth had taken Joanna to bed with her to atone for the approaching separation, and Amy had capped the climax by putting a clothespin on her nose to uplift the offending feature.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the news-stand she bought a copy of "Town Tattle" and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)