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

"She never told me about the embrocation," said Sally, leaning back against the mossed stones of the bench and looking up into the web of branches.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin

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

From The Faith of Islam by Sell, Edward

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

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

From A Pair of Clogs by Walton, Amy