brilliantine
noun/ˈbrɪliəntiːn/
/ˈbrɪliəntiːn/
[uncountable]- oil used in the past to make men’s hair shinyTopics Appearancec2Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French brillantine, from brillant ‘shining’, present participle of briller, from Italian brillare, probably from Latin beryllus from Greek bērullos.
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