philtre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of philtre
C16: from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron love potion, from philos loving
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In the evening the Khan's mother returned with several women, bent on getting the "love philtre."
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Alexis, much to Aline's alarm, commissions him to supply liberal quantities of his patent love philtre in order that, from purely philanthropical motives, as he explains, he may distribute it secretly amongst the villagers.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
It is like a Circean philtre of sweet sunbrewed wine, sparkling with rainbow bubbles and gleaming with the mockery of the deathless gods.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
She was concocting a philtre to make a girl happy,—herself.
From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham
Who shall withstand the philtre Endora of Hecate brews?
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
I could not gaze into his sorrowful eyes, and not see in them “Love’s philtred euphrasy.”
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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