depilatory
nounEtymology From French dépilatoire.
1
A preparation that removes hair from the body.
- When Bilkis Queen of Sheba discovered her legs by lifting her robe (Koran xxvii.), Solomon was minded to marry her, but would not do so till the devils had by a depilatory removed the hair.1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume IV, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- Depilatories were used for all hirsute parts of the body.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 81: