Tewkesbury mustard

noun

A kind of mustard made with grated horseradish root.

Meanings

nounTewkesbury mustard (countable and uncountable, plural Tewkesbury mustards)

plural Tewkesbury mustards

  1. countableuncountableA kind of mustard made with grated horseradish root.

    His wit's as thick as Tewkesbury mustard.

    c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]
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