plantain water

plantain water

English

Noun

plantain water (uncountable)

1. (now rare) A drink made from the plantain plant. [from 16th c.]
   • 1755, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8:

     This was not the case with Sancho Panza, whose belly being well replenished, and that not with plantane water, made but one nap of the whole night […] .

   • 1952, Carroll Camden, Elizabethan Women:

     For those who judge the efficacy of a mouthwash by its unpleasant taste, a rather nauseous remedy can be made from four ounces each of rose-water and plantain-water, an ounce of honey of roses […]