Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word burgundy-pitch.
Examples
-
As if the man, being ill from pleurisy, therefore had a right to take a lady for one of the dressers in an hospital, whose duty it would be to fix a burgundy-pitch plaster between his shoulders.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
-
M.M. Venesection repeatedly; calomel; gentle cathartics; diluents; warm bath; poultice on the back, consisting of camomile flowers, turpentine, soap, and opium; a burgundy-pitch plaster.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.