单词 | syrup of roses |
释义 | > as lemmascakes (also honey, sugar, syrup, water) of roses c. In phrases denoting chiefly cosmetic, culinary, or medicinal preparations scented or flavoured with rose petals or rose oil, as cakes (also honey, sugar, syrup, water) of roses. Cf. Compounds 1a(c), rose cake n., and rose water n. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 84 Me schal doo wiþinne byndinge medycynes..as water of roses wiþ wommannes melk. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 27 (MED) Quynade: Take Quynces..caste hem on a potte & caste þer-to water of Rosys. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. 52 b/1 Recipe of syrupe de besantiis, of syrupe of roses. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. vi. 7 Iulep of Roses and Violettes, or Syrupus acetosus. 1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος ci. 150 Now and then the dry places were anointed with honey of Roses, and sometimes with Butter, and so she was cured. 1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 785 Manna dissolv'd in Syrup of Roses. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 61 Remnants of Packthread, and old Cakes of Roses. 1686 W. Denton Let. in M. M. Verney Mem. (1899) IV. ix. 359 I could wish you would take sugar of roses with yr. asses' milke. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Appetite With a little Syrup of Roses make a small Lump of it. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Sugar of Roses, is made of Red-Rose Leaves, dried in an Oven. 1769 Lloyd's Evening Post 27–30 Oct. 410/3 Milk of Roses..the most friendly Preserver and Clearer of the Skin. 1826 Lancet 30 Dec. 406/1 The mouth was washed out frequently with elder tea and honey of roses. 1850 Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 153 The extrait or esprit of roses, violets, mignionette, jessamine, orange-flowers, acacia, tuberose, and lavender are, beyond question, the most exquisite of all perfumes. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 193 Hot herringpies, green mugs of sack, honeysauces, sugar of roses, marchpane, gooseberried pigeons, ringocandies. 1994 L. J. Acierno Hist. Cardiol. vi. xxx. 704 His pharmacopeia was simple, limited to syrup of roses or senna and blood-letting. syrup of roses a. With modifying words, indicating the source, or the flavouring or medicinal ingredient, as syrup of almonds, syrup of diacodium, syrup of poppies, syrup of rhubarb, syrup of roses, syrup of squills, syrup of vinegar, syrup of violets, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > syrup or linctus > [noun] > specific syrupa1400 sapec1440 opiate1685 sapa1725 hive-syrup1839 a1400–50 Stockholm Med. MS. 11 For to makyn surripe of violet; it. of wormwode. c1400 Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 83 If he haue þrist, drynke he a syrupe of roses. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 147 Some turne it [sc. milk] with..syrope of Uineger. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) There are various Kinds of Syrops, denominated from the various Fruits, &c. they are extracted from; as Syrop of Violets, of Elder, of Wormwood, of Poppies, &c. 1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 18 Take..1 Ounce of Syrup of Diacodium. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 493 Such things as promote expectoration..as the syrup of squills. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) (at cited word) Syrups..are chiefly used to render medicines palatable... s. Antiscorbutic..s. of Buckthorn..s. of Garlick..s. of Mugwort [etc.]. 1849 J. Ruskin Diary Apr. in M. Lutyens Ruskins & Grays (1972) xxi. 188 The landlady, who noticed my illness, made me some syrup of violets. 1902 J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge Words 267 ‘Treacle’ is applied indifferently to the ‘spume of sugar’, to ‘maple syrup’, and to ‘molasses’. 1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 9 The fruit syrups, raspberry vinegar, home-made wines..were important drinks when tea, coffee and chocolate were unknown. < as lemmas |
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