Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
hippocras .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Hippocras.
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- noun Obsolete form of
hippocras .
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Examples
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This he washed down with bastard, malmsey, and good ale, topped with almonds, comfits, perfumed cherries with "ipocras," then sprinkled himself with rose-water and dabbled his face and hands in it.
Michel and Angele — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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This he washed down with bastard, malmsey, and good ale, topped with almonds, comfits, perfumed cherries with "ipocras," then sprinkled himself with rose-water and dabbled his face and hands in it.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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This he washed down with bastard, malmsey, and good ale, topped with almonds, comfits, perfumed cherries with "ipocras," then sprinkled himself with rose-water and dabbled his face and hands in it.
Michel and Angele — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Or make a sauce with beaten butter, and juyce of grapes mixt with ipocras, pour it on the eggs, and scrape on sugar.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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-- And when they had been in their baths as long as was their pleasure, they had green ginger, divers syrups, comfits, and ipocras, and then they went to bed.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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The king spoke to her as kindly as before, offered her ipocras [see Note 4] and spices, and on the close of the interview, took up his little Queen in his arms, and carried her out of the room.
Mistress Margery Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"Ha!" said John of Gaunt, and sipped his ipocras with a grim smile.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
knitandpurl commented on the word ipocras
Of Canvey Island: "A place, in William Harrison's words, 'which some call marshes onlie, and liken them to an ipocras bag, some to a vice, scrue, or wide sleeve, because the are verie small at the east end and large at the west'."
-Thames: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd, p 441
"A spiced wine taken at the end of a meal as a digestive. The spices were filtered through a jelly bag known to apothecaries as a manicum hippocraticum - the sleeve of Hippocrates. This piece of apparatus gave the drink its name." -- from historicfood.com, which also has recipes.
also spelled ypocras or hippocras
August 23, 2009