lomi-lomin.
/ˈləʊmɪˈləʊmi/ The shampooing practised among the Hawaiians.
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1850 W. Colton Deck & Port xi. 347 I was..determined to try..the bath and the ‘lomi-lomi’.
1882 W. D. Howells in Longman's Mag. 1 51 This slippered and rhythmic pace was like a sort of Hawaiian lomi-lomi to our toughened sensibilities; it tickled, it lulled us.
1951 Amer. Speech 26 23 Other common Hawaiian words are..lomilomi (massage).
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