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- noun Alternative spelling of
tisane .
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Examples
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“Suláfat” (ptisane, grape juice allowed to drain on the slabs) and “Sawálif” (tresses, locks) has been explained.
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As though ptisane of wine on her lips honey dew, iii.
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Of which race there were few that looked the ptisane, but all of them were perfect lovers of the pure Septembral juice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Of which race there were few that looked the ptisane, but all of them were perfect lovers of the pure Septembral juice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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His diet was barley - water, prunes with sugar, at other times broth: his drink was a ptisane.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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His diet was barley-water, prunes with sugar, at other times broth: his drink was a ptisane.
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As though ptisane of wine on her lips honey dew, iii.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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M.C. de Perceval (iii. 54), gives it a different and now unknown name; and Mr. Lane also applies it to "ptisane."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Then hail the Wine-bride, drain the wine-ptisane * Which, poured from flagon, flows with flaming glow:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Come, rouse yourself: take this ptisane of rice. '
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847
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(p)tisan(e)
May 9, 2013