cold-cream

1. 1.

   put cold cream on one's face

   Broaderput on

Questions about cold-cream

What does cold-cream mean?

cold-cream means "put cold cream on one's face".

How many syllables are in cold-cream?

cold-cream has 3 syllables and divides as cold--cre-am 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.

Is cold-cream a common word?

cold-cream is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.