Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Distilled water containing the essential oils of flowers, as rose-water.
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Examples
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Avast, ye scurvy purveyors of baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water!
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“I put this question to the clerk, who showed me something that smelled like baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water from a vast.”
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“I put this question to the clerk, who showed me something that smelled like baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water from a vast.”
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I put this question to the clerk, who showed me something that smelled like baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water from a vast.
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Her elder flower-water ritual, her quiet moment, the little circle of beauty and refinement she had created, privately, was now to be smashed.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Her elder flower-water ritual, her quiet moment, the little circle of beauty and refinement she had created, privately, was now to be smashed.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Mary had just asked Mary Seton to bring her the elder flower-water to smooth over her shoulders and neck.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Mary had just asked Mary Seton to bring her the elder flower-water to smooth over her shoulders and neck.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Pass the yolks of six eggs through a sieve, add six ounces of white sugar in powder, and two table-spoonfuls of trebly-distilled orange flower-water, and, as before mentioned, place the cups in a
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 Various 1836
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Oranges to make oranges and ricotta cake with oranges in flower-water syrup
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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