| 单词 | eau-de-luce |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseau-de-Luce eau-de-Luce n. a medicinal preparation of alcohol, ammonia, and oil of amber, used in India as an antidote to snake-bites, and in England sometimes as smelling salts. [ < French eau de Luce (1750 or earlier) < eau eau n. + de de prep. + Luce, the name of an apothecary in Lille, though according to 18th-cent. sources this preparation was in fact invented by Du Balen, a Paris apothecary, and the name of a different preparation became transferred to it as a result of confusion; compare scientific Latin aqua Luciae (1773 or earlier).] extracted from eaun.< as lemmas |
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