plantain water

noun

A drink made from the plantain plant.

First used 16th c.
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Meanings

nounplantain water (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableA drink made from the plantain plant.First known use 16th c.

    This was not the case with Sancho Panza, whose belly being well replenished, and that not with plantane water, made but one nap of the whole night […].

    1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8
    1 more example

    For those who judge the efficacy of a mouthwash by its unpleasant taste, a rather nauseous remedy can be made from four ounces each of rose-water and plantain-water, an ounce of honey of roses […]

    1952, Carroll Camden, Elizabethan Women
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