brilliantine

1. 1.

   a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous

   Broaderpomade

Other forms of brilliantine

plural

brilliantines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brilliantine

What does brilliantine mean?

brilliantine means "a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous".

How many syllables are in brilliantine?

brilliantine has 4 syllables and divides as bril-li-an-tine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.