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pomade (n.)
1560s, from Middle French
pommade
"an ointment" (16c.), from Italian
pomata
, from
pomo
"apple," from Latin
pomum
"fruit; apple" (see
Pomona
). So called because the original ointment recipe contained mashed apples.
