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- noun A sort of coif or cap, with a double bottom inclosing a mixture of aromatic powders, having cotton for an excipient. It was formerly used as a powerful cephalic.
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missanthropist commented on the word cucupha
Caps quilted with good things for the head.
Elisha Cole, English Dictionary, 1713
A sort of coif or cap, with a double bottom, between which is enclosed a mixtures of aromatic powders, having cotton for an excipiant. It was formerly used as a powerful cephalic.
Robley Dunglison, Dictionary of Medical Sciences, 1844
February 4, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word cucupha
(noun) - A sort of coif or cap with a double bottom, between which is enclosed a mixture of aromatic powders. It was formerly used as a powerful cephalic.
--Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
January 16, 2018