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
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He followed the great movement of chocolates; he was the first to introduce "cocoa" and "revalenta" into the
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850
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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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