hippocras
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hippocras
1325–75; Middle English ypocras, apparently short for ypocras wyn (translation of Medieval Latin vīnum hippocraticum; so called because clarified by filtering through a strainer named after Hippocrates); Middle English ypocras < Old French: Hippocrates < Medieval Latin Hippocrās, alteration of Latin Hippocratēs, on model of words like cīvitās (nominative), cīvitātis (genitive)
Example Sentences
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According to several medieval cookbooks the most common of the sweet, spiced wines in the late middle-ages were still referred to as hippocras, with the term "mulled wine" coming later.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
“Would you like a glass of hippocras, or some perry?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The page who had brought Sir Agravaine’s hippocras came in from the cloister door.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Neither wine nor hippocras had befogged the stout heads of the Assyrians, nor loosened their canny tongues.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)
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