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salep|ˈsæləp|
See also saloop.
[= F. salep, Sp. salép, Pg. salepo, a. Turkish sālep, a. Arabic thaﻋleb (pronounced in some parts saﻋleb), taken to be a shortening of khasyu 'th-thaﻋlab orchis (lit. ‘fox's testicles’; cf. the Eng. name ‘dogstones’.)]
A nutritive meal, starch, or jelly made from the dried tubers of various orchidaceous plants, chiefly those of the genus Orchis; formerly also used as a drug.
1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 519 Put an ounce of salop or salep, into a quart of water. 1771E. Haywood New Present 43 To boil Salep. Take of the powder of salep a large teaspoonful [etc.]. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 365 The root [of Orchis mascula] being washed, baked, and ground to powder, is salep. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (1861) 295 Salep is used in the preparation of a mucilaginous jelly like arrow-root. 1858Carpenter Veg. Phys. §677 A nutritive substance termed Salep, somewhat resembling Arrow-root or Sago. 1861[see saloop 1].
attrib.1768Moult in Phil. Trans. LIX. 3 The jelly of Salep-powder is clear and transparent. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 345/2 One part of salep-powder with forty-eight parts of water boiled or heated forms a thick mucilage. 1868Watts Dict. Chem. V. 147 Salep-mucilage. |