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

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

Ther’s embrocation, hoss iles, every sort of lin’ments.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell

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

His eye for horses had most probably been formed on circus posters, and the advertisements of a well-known embrocation, and Moonlighter approximated in colour and conduct to these models.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin