Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Posset made with sack, with or without mixture of ale: formerly brewed customarily on a wedding-night.
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Examples
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He flung the joint-stools in his tent at the heads of the officers of state, and kicked his aides-de-camp round his pavilion; and, in fact, a maid of honor, who brought a sack-posset in to his
Burlesques 2006
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For instance, if Pepys mentions that he nearly ate a sack-posset, someone may well sign on and tell you what it is and how to cook it.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Samuel Pepys, blogger 2003
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When they got access, they found him lying in his naked bed, with a sack-posset, and some confections by him; which I humbly judge was not a very becoming posture at that time for a General.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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For many years sack-posset was drunk at weddings, sometimes within the bridal chamber; but not with noisy revelry, as in old England.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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A girl who did not know everything from the roasting of a turkey to the making of sack-posset, and through all the gradations of pickling and preserving, was not considered
A Little Girl in Old Boston Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
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Herbert, and I will sing thee the sweetest of English ditties, and make thee such a sack-posset as never could be made out of old
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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Herbert, and I will sing thee the sweetest of English ditties, and make thee such a sack-posset as never could be made out of old
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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He flung the joint-stools in his tent at the heads of the officers of state, and kicked his aides-de-camp round his pavilion; and, in fact, a maid of honor, who brought a sack-posset in to his
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An excellent cook in a plain way -- indeed, she had no practice in any other -- she would brew strong ale and mead, or mix a sack-posset with, any innkeeper in the city.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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He flung the joint-stools in his tent at the heads of the officers of state, and kicked his aides-de-camp round his pavilion; and, in fact, a maid of honor, who brought a sack-posset in to his Majesty from the Queen after he came in from the assault, came spinning like a football out of the royal tent just as
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
ruzuzu commented on the word sack-posset
"Posset made with sack, with or without mixture of ale: formerly brewed customarily on a wedding-night."
--Century Dictionary
January 15, 2011