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Depilate V Remove Hair Dandy Carefully Trimmed Shaved

Word depilate
Definition v. To remove hair from.
Sentence He was something of a dandy, so that he not only kept himself carefully trimmed and shaved but also, as some people have charged, depilated with tweezers.
Source Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Divus Julius, p. 22

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