unguent

Example Sentences

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Likewise, “sefet” is thought to refer to a sacred oil, but three vessels with that label contained animal fats combined with plant additives, suggesting it could be a scented unguent instead.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

Bert Parks, 65, for 25 years the mellow master of ceremonies whose rendition of that unguent ballad had become something of a late-summer tradition, has not been invited back for 1980's Miss America contest.

From Time Magazine Archive

But His Majesty is precisely the fly in the Irish unguent of freedom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Commentators could not help detecting one fly in the unguent, and greatly fearing another.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dressed by the nereids and embalmed with honey, honey and unguent in the seething blaze, you turned to ash.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer