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frostinglike en · ADJ

Etymology

From frosting + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of frosting.
   • Combine baking soda and castile or liquid soap to form a frostinglike consistency to use as a soft scrub cleanser instead of a sink, tub, and tile cleaner. 2009, Lindsey Carmichael, Greening Your Family, page 91:
   • There are variations, like Al Held’s stark, existentialist compositions, with the canvas divided into quadrants. Ms. Goldfarb’s impasto is applied, frostinglike, with a palette knife, and Norman Bluhm offers a symphony of splatters. 2007 August 31, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:

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