philtre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of philtre
C16: from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron love potion, from philos loving
Example Sentences
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What had Sylvia found to be lacking in her philtre?
From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise
It is like a Circean philtre of sweet sunbrewed wine, sparkling with rainbow bubbles and gleaming with the mockery of the deathless gods.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
She shall brew, doubly brew a philtre of love, strong enough to warm the icy Chios were he ten times colder than the snows on Tmolus.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard
When the above-mentioned woman cooks for the man, her husband, or any other for whom she is making the philtre, the water she uses in the jomba is taken from that prepared bottle.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
He never had a thought of the old life at home with his mother, so completely had the nymph's philtre done its work.
From Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 by Johnson, Rossiter
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