Also means
flattery, soft-soaping (figurative)
Usage Note
Pommade is a thick medicinal or cosmetic ointment; pommade coiffante is a hair-styling pomade. The figurative expression passer de la pommade à quelqu'un means to flatter someone excessively (to butter someone up), a very common idiom. Related: pommader (to pomade, to flatter).
Examples
"Le médecin lui a prescrit une pommade pour la brûlure."
Natural Translation
The doctor prescribed him an ointment for the burn.
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