poix

• Maybe I will whip up a mire poix to throw in for a little more flavor later this week to try to salvage it. —  Prickly Pear Bloom
• Barthélemy Minguet of Brécy, a man of twenty-five, tried in 1616, described the ceremonies of the Sabbath; after the sermon the worshippers 'vont à l'offerte, tenant en leurs mains des chandelles de poix noire qui leur sont données par le Diable'. [ —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
• Leonard de Vinci (MSS. de Leonard de Vinci, vol.B. f. 30,) dit qu'on le faisait avec du charbon de saule, du salpetre, de l'eau de vie, de la resine, du soufre, de la poix et du camphre. —  The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
• The dress is the picture -- this common white dress, with black spots, _une robe a poix, une petite confection de soixante cinq francs_, as the French would say; and very far it is from all remembrance of the diaphanous, fairy-like skirts of our eighteenth century English school, but I swear to you no less charming. —  Modern Painting
• Sprinkled over with drops either of gold -- _gouttée d’or_; of silver -- _d’eau_; of blue -- _de larmes_ (tears); of red -- _de sang_ (blood); or of black -- _de poix_ (pitch). —  The Handbook to English Heraldry

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