embrocation

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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

The Sandal consists in making a perfumed embrocation from sandal wood.

From The Faith of Islam by Sell, Edward

Madame Tentaillon stooped over him, applying a hot water and mustard embrocation to his feet; and on a chair close by sat a little fellow of eleven or twelve, with his feet dangling.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He desired nothing but the cold sheets of his bed and a bottle of embrocation.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

"You may take your will of him after he has put some embrocation on your bruises," said I; and as I was speaking there came a timorous little knock at the door.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)