Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
quinaquina .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Peruvian bark.
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Examples
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In a show of generosity, the Incas instructed her to drink a potion containing the ground bark of the native "Quinquina" tree, which grew on the slopes of the Andes.
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In a show of generosity, the Incas instructed her to drink a potion containing the ground bark of the native "Quinquina" tree, which grew on the slopes of the Andes.
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Overcome by this evidence I bestow on the good fathers a double portion of gratitude, for they imported the Quinquina yet known as
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So he smoked on, lazily, in silence, feeling the slight stir in his blood caused by the Quinquina.
Civilization Tales of the Orient Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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Ask him to give you a luncheon such as he supplies to the golf club of which Lord Kilmaine is president, and for dinner (being always mindful of the value of local colour) consult him, over a glass of Quinquina and vermouth, as to some of the dishes mentioned earlier in this article.
The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Algernon Bastard 1885
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His tedious paraphrase of _Psyché_, and the poem _Quinquina_, in which he celebrates the recovery from illness of the Duchess, were performances of duty and gratitude rather than of native impulse; but the tendencies of her salon, restrained neither by the proprieties of the classical doctrine in literature nor those of religious strictness, may have encouraged him to the production of his _Contes_.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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Give her the Quinquina wine when she eats, for she must eat anything she wants, especially eggs.
Nobody's Girl (En Famille) Hector Malot 1868
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Quinquina represents the first and ipecacuanha the second.
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Overcome by this evidence I bestow on the good fathers a double portion of gratitude, for they imported the Quinquina yet known as
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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HER. oire sur le Quinquina - Piton ou des Montagnes, ibid.
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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