Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The commercial name of lentilmeal, introduced as a food for invalids. In full, revalenta Arabica. Also ervalenta.

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Examples

  • He followed the great movement of chocolates; he was the first to introduce "cocoa" and "revalenta" into the

    Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • Hermione, &c. &c. &c. were brought up on baked flour, groat-gruel, rusks, tops and bottoms, or revalenta food!

    The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales Alfred Gatty 1841

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