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

Now it would have been singularly easy to have affixed a different label to my unrivaled peach-bloom cosmetic and have supplied him with a sure-to-heal embrocation.

From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold

Then, for physic, an embrocation containing one-third of turpentine is used thrice daily, to rub the animal's back, neck, and belly with.

From The Dog by Dinks

"One of the colts has sprained his shoulder, and we're out of embrocation; so I'm going to get some from Brooch."

From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford