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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A system of medical treatment in vogue in certain parts of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Tyrol, consisting in a more or less exclusive diet of grapes.
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Examples
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On the death of the general, which had taken place the year before, the inconsolable widow had gone abroad with her daughter, partly in order to try the grape-cure which she proposed to carry out at
The Possessed 2003
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After losses of blood, and in allied states of exhaustion, the restorative powers of the grape-cure are often [240] strikingly exhibited.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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We do not fancy the Bonapartist grape-cure, nor believe in it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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Children do not, as a rule, bear the grape-cure well.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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'My husband insists upon trying the baths of Bormio, and then we are to go over a pass for him to try the grape-cure at
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'My husband insists upon trying the baths of Bormio, and then we are to go over a pass for him to try the grape-cure at Meran.
Vittoria — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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'My husband insists upon trying the baths of Bormio, and then we are to go over a pass for him to try the grape-cure at Meran.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I have been through what is called the grape-cure, much more charming, certainly, than the water-cure.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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I have been through what is called the grape-cure, much more charming, certainly, than the water-cure.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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I have been through what is called the grape-cure, much more charming, certainly, than the water-cure.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Margaret Fuller 1830
qms commented on the word grape-cure
When rich folk felt clogged and unfree
They'd travel to mountains or sea,
Or make an escape tour
Including a grape-cure
To purge them of turgid ennui.
July 16, 2017
bilby commented on the word grape-cure
Is wine acceptable?
July 16, 2017
qms commented on the word grape-cure
From what I read you had to eat leaves and stems too, but I suspect wine was the point. The customers came eagerly and left happy.
July 16, 2017