camphire

British  

/ ˈkæmfaɪə /

noun

1. an archaic name for henna henna

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Example Sentences

She further suggests that if the Jewish women were not in the habit of using this dye before the time of Solomon, it might probably have been introduced amongst them by his wife, the daughter of Pharaoh, and traces to this probability the allusion to “camphire” in the passages in Canticles above referred to.

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Best clothes and common clothes, thick clothes and thin clothes, flannels and linens, socks and collars, with handkerchiefs enough to keep the pickpockets busy for a week, with a paper of gingerbread and some lozenges for gastralgia, and 'hot drops,' and ruled paper to write letters on, and a little Bible and a phial with hiera piera, and another with paregoric, and another with 'camphire' for sprains and bruises.

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O Mrs. Minch! have ye iver a bit of camphire?

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Mrs. Minch laid down her work, looked up the “camphire,” and plied her caller with inquiries.

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"I am goin' to 'tend to my stock, an' if ye aint, mebbe the camphire—sperrits of camphire——" "I don't need it," she answered.

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