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

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

He sends some physic to be given, and some embrocation to rub on the back.

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

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

From A Pair of Clogs by Walton, Amy