embrocation

Example Sentences

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The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

It was Roche’s embrocation that did her more good than anything.

From A Pair of Clogs by Walton, Amy

Ordinary muscular strains generally yield to a good rubbing with an embrocation.

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

He sends some physic to be given, and some embrocation to rub on the back.

From The Dog by Dinks

And if an embrocation may be used with good effects in the latter case, why may it not be used in the former?

From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Warschauer, Joseph