citron-water

And we did, seated on cushions around low tables, dining on mor­sels of spiced chicken, melon and rolled balls of millet flavored with lemon and sesame, with honey-mead and citron-water in abundance.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

He broke off halfway through, to take his friends to the inner room for a drink of cold citron-water mixed with wine.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

Twice or thrice in the year the stem is washed with citron-water, which is said to give the clear color so much esteemed.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Indeed I don't lay in store of cake and bandboxes, and citron-water, and cards, and cold meat, as country-women do after the session.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

The Commodore excused himself in this part of the entertainment, under the pretence of illness; but there being another gentleman present, of a florid and jovial complexion, the chief mandarin clapped him on the shoulder, and told him by the interpreter that certainly he could not plead sickness, and therefore insisted on his bearing him company; and that gentleman perceiving that after they had despatched four or five bottles of Frontiniac, the mandarin still continued unruffled, he ordered a bottle of citron-water to be brought up, which the Chinese seemed much to relish; and this being near finished they arose from table, in appearance cool and uninfluenced by what they had drunk.

Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter