Meanings
- uncountableA mixture of peyote and water used ceremonially and medicinally.
You'd always had skin problems. Since you can remember. Your dad used to rub peyote gravy on your rashes. That worked for a while. Until he wasn't around anymore.
2018, Tommy Orange, There, There, 1st; Everybody Reads edition, New York: Vintage Books, published 2020, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 2173 more examples
During the ritual, held in a living room of a dwelling, the leader sits, at the west of the room; […] Peyote is usually ground fine and mixed with water to make a “gravy.” One button or one spoonful of peyote “gravy” is taken each round.
1987, Omar C. Stewart, Peyote Religion: A History, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 269I am lost in the songs and the firelight, and so I don't see the Fireman begin the first serving of the sacred plant. […] Next comes the tea, […] and at last a mason jar full of a mixture of tea, powder, and shredded cactus affectionately called peyote gravy.
[2002 October, Jerry Mader, The Road to Lame Deer, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page unknownI can speak generally though and will speak of the Peyote ceremony which came to our people [Osage] through the Dineh (Navaho) in relatively recent times. […] A peyote gravy is passed around and you may eat as little or as much as you wish.
2005 January 5, Blackbear, “Re:smatterings”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet), retrieved 24 Aug 2022
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peyote gravy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peyote%20gravy
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