plantain water
English
Noun
plantain water (uncountable)
- (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 […]
- 1755, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8: