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
But this Iris hastily refused, and in a few moments she left the shop in triumph with a bottle of Roche’s embrocation neatly done up in white paper and sealing-wax.
From A Pair of Clogs by Walton, Amy
He sends some physic to be given, and some embrocation to rub on the back.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
Tom left his Woolley-legs, brought a bottle of embrocation; a few drops of that on the skin, a bit of sticking-plaster; there, that was all right.
From The Bill-Toppers by Castaigne, J. André
