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Epilator vs Expilator - What's the difference?

epilator | expilator |

As nouns the difference between epilator and expilator

is that epilator is an electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out while expilator is one who plunders or pillages.

epilator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.

    • Related terms

    * epilate * epilation

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l)

    expilator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
  • * 1658': For which the most barbarous '''Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 26)
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