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Your tattoo artist should cover your tattoo with ointment and a clean bandage and give you aftercare instructions to support healing.—Brendan Camp, Verywell Health, 28 June 2025 Some resort to using a combination of topical ointments and creams to try to control the dry skin and itching that characterize the condition.—New Atlas, 24 June 2025 The Hello Kitty backpack usually contains things players might need, such as ibuprofen, wet wipes and ointments to relieve sore muscles.—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2025 James said that Combs also kept his toiletry bag stocked with around 40 different products, including ointments and Just For Men hair and beard dye.—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for ointment
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Etymology
Middle English, alteration of oynement, from Anglo-French uignement, oignement, ultimately from Latin unguentum, from unguere to anoint; akin to Old High German ancho butter, Sanskrit anakti he salves
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