cold-cream

1. 1.

   put cold cream on one's face

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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: cold--cre-am. The stress falls on "cold-".

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.