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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of limbec.

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Examples

  • Black Isles, who though he sat in a palace where fountains limbecked water “clear as pearls and diaphanous gems,” and wore “silken stuff purfled with Egyptian gold,” was from his midriff downwards not man but marble!

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • King of the Black Isles, who though he sat in a palace where fountains limbecked water "clear as pearls and diaphanous gems," and wore "silken stuff purfled with Egyptian gold," was from his midriff downwards not man but marble!

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • FN#440] What a rare tale is that of the Ensorcelled Prince, alias The Young King of the Black Isles, who though he sat in a palace where fountains limbecked water

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

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