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The physical exuberance includes a scene in which two obsequious servants (Josh Lucas and Alex Mills) give the Wife a manicure and spa session — each touch of a makeup brush or emery board as ebullient as a dance step.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
For the man looking to advance his beauty routine, there’s also a pumice stone and emery boards.
—Addie Morton, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
Some practitioners recommend paring back the wart with a pumice stone or emery board before application.
—Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
Coarse files, like traditional emery boards, cause tiny tears that leave the free edge of the nail (the very tip) rough and more apt to snag on things and break, nail technician Amy Ling Lin, founder and CEO of Sundays, tells SELF.
—Melanie Rud, SELF, 28 July 2023
Consider utilizing the sidewalk as a giant emery board.
—Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2021
Instead, just grab an emery board from the bathroom vanity.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 24 Oct. 2020
Grab a strengthening base coat, a new emery board file, plus a few picks from the 2020 fall collection, which dropped last month.
—Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2020
Videos on the social media platform feature young influencers and amateurs showing off the dangerous tooth-smoothing technique, which involves grinding the enamel with an ordinary emery board or metal nail file.
—Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 18 Sep. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1725, in the meaning defined above
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“Emery board.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emery%20board. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
emery board
noun
: a nail file made of cardboard covered with powdered emery
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