Meaning of bear's grease | Babel Free

Definitions

The fat of the brown bear mixed with beef marrow and perfume, formerly a folk treatment for hair loss.

uncountable

Examples

““Stuff!” growled the other, “you fancied you were getting bald the other day, and bragged about it as you do about everything. But you began to use the bear’s-grease pot directly the hairdresser told you; and are scented like a barber ever since.””

“Oh, for a jar of bearʼs grease such as was always in supply at Mrs Castawayʼs — but she canʼt imagine where she could buy bearʼs grease in Marylebone.”

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