em|bro|ca|tion

em|bro|ca|tion
em|bro|ca|tion «EHM broh KAY shuhn», noun.
1. a liniment or lotion used for bathing and rubbing the body: »

He went to Milan…with a suspected touch of pleurisy. From then on his mother bought the embrocation wholesale (Punch).


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