distilled water
noun
water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
distilled waters
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pluralof distilled water.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She had a book full of receipts after the old fashion, and a closet where she distilled waters and compounded elixirs, and a medicine-chest which was the terror of her neighbours.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
The younger ones ran for aromatic salts, while the lady of the house fetched some very peculiar distilled waters.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
In this capital, you no longer find among the fair sex those over-delicate constitutions, whose artificial existence could be maintained only by salts, essences, and distilled waters.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
Bacon said "distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things."
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
She had not been one of those trifling and trivanting gentlewomen that pull diseases on to their pates with drums and routs, and late hours, and hot rooms, and carding, and distilled waters.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
