Definitions

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  • See borage, n., etc.

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  • noun Obsolete form of borage.

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Examples

  • Take a leg of veal, and set it a boiling in a gallon of fair water, scum it clean, and when you have so done put in three quarters of a pound of currans, half a pound of prunes, a handful of borrage, as much mint, and as much harts-tongue; let them seeth together till all the strength be sodden out of the flesh, then strain it as clean as you can.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

  • Thus also you may make fritters of beets, clary, borrage, bugloss, or lattice.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

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