aqua pura
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aqua pura
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Down it went, pushing a column of compressed aqua pura ahead of it and sucking a big black hole along in its wake.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
But the show was a frost, though Lillah gave an excellent imitation, with the aid of a toy spider, of a Hun inserting bacilli into the nation's aqua pura.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
Up went the spectral fan again, and out came the forty-two shillings, and, with a formal courtesy, the venerable old maid walked away with the two bottles of aqua pura in her pocket.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
They found the messenger serene in the belief that the "Sunset Express" was taking on nothing more stimulating and dangerous than aqua pura.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
In Europe, for instance, light wines cannot be produced without 'liquor,' as the trade calls aqua pura, by latitudes lower than Germany and Southern France.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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