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cough mixture

British  

noun

  1. any medicine that relieves coughing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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You have sat here day after day in this heavy close air, reeking of lavender, tobacco, and cough mixture, while I have felt the storm breaking about my head.

From Magda A Play in Four Acts by Sudermann, Hermann

The cough mixture will tend to relieve this condition also.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm

Will Jane remember right Their cough mixture at night?

From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Inchfawn, Fay

The steward’s cough mixture was the only medicine I got that day.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

My dear," Miss Gallup said confidentially, "Em'ly-Alice has gone to the surgery for my cough mixture and some embrocation, and she takes such a time.

From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)

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