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c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 222 (MED) Herbe pro balneis. Tak yerdhoue..& plantayne leues.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 50 Romeo: Your Planton leafe is excellent for that. Ben: For what? Romeo: For your broken shin. View more context for this quotation

1662 R. Watkins Flamma sine Fumo 132 Some Plantain leaves being plaistred with fresh greace, Bring down the swollen gout, and grief appease.

1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 34 Take frequently a Spoonful of the Juice of Nettles and Plantane Leaves.

1899 C. P. Stetson Yellow Wallpaper 36 The key is down by the front door, under a plantain leaf!

2003 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 4 Sept. e1 Her 3-year-old son already knows to find a plantain leaf when someone gets hurt, she said. ‘He chews it up, spits it on the wound’.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xx. 157 We suddenly fell upon halfe a dozen poore cottages, covered with boughes and plantin leaves.

1740 C. Leslie New & Exact Acct. Jamaica (ed. 3) xi. 343 After this the Shells are cut, the Nuts taken out and put into a Trough, covered with Plantane Leaves.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 305 Portions..were distributed on plantain leaves to each guest by the Brahmins.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 360 He..began to eat, scooping up scalding handfuls of rice and dal from the plantain-leaf wrappers.