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† slibber-sauce Obs.
Also 7 sliber-.
[? f. older Flem. slibber (Kilian), slime, ooze, = MDu. slibbe, Du. slib; LG. slibb(e: cf. slibbery a. The relation to sibber-sauce and slabber-sauce is not clear.]
1. A compound or concoction of a messy, repulsive, or nauseous character, used esp. for medicinal purposes.
1527Tindale Parab. Wicked Mammon Wks. 65/1 His stomacke..longyng after slibbersause and swashe, at which a whole stomacke is readye to cast hys gorge. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 116, I loath almost to thincke on..all their slibber sawces, whiche bring quesinesse to the stomacke. 1601Holland Pliny I. 423 Oftentimes also they make sliber-sauces of it selfe without any other mixture. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 288 [He] was but a weak spirited man,..by such slibber-sauces, and drugs as Olympias had procured to be given him.
2. A preparation of this kind used as a cosmetic.
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 137 There are no sortes of ointments and slibber sauces, which they will not proue, to make their haire of the brauest coulour. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. 55 To color their faces with such slibbersawces. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 413 For the face they used so much slibber-sauce, such dawbing and painting [etc.]. 1633Hart Diet of Diseased i. xxii. 98 Our gentlewomen..dirt-dawb their faces with their severall slibber-sauces and paints.
Hence † slibber-sauced a. Obs.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 147 Without any slibber-sauced ceremonies. |