rectified spirit
Britishnoun
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She has styled her hair with rice starch and rectified spirit.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013
It consists of about one-third part pure resin, and two-thirds of gummy matter; the former soluble in rectified spirit, the other in water.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
Eau-de-Cologne, a perfume originally manufactured at Cologne by distillation from certain essential oils with rectified spirit.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
The flowers of mullein have an agreeable, honeylike sweetness: an extract prepared from them by rectified spirit of wine tastes extremely pleasant.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
Eight pounds of No. 24 tuberose pomatum, cut up very fine, is to be placed into 1 gallon of the best rectified spirit.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
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