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Definition
something with a softening or soothing effect — especially to the skin, but often metaphorically- People with dry skin should use an emollient for washing.
- replaced the chairman with someone with a more emollient personality
- Mr. Bucket brings the finger into play as an emollient.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- Diet, that is all; sedatives, emollients, dulcification.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- An able surgeon cured Candide in three weeks by means of emollients taught by Dioscorides.Voltaire -- Candide
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