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julep|ˈdʒuːlɛp|
Forms: 5–7 iulep, -lip, 6 iulepe, -lepp, 6–7 -leb, -lap, 7 jewlep, -lip, julipe, -loup, 7–8 julip, -lap, 7– julep.
[a. F. julep (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), in Pr. julep, Sp. and Pg. julepe, It. giulebbe, giulebbo, med.L. julapium, ad. Arab. julāb, a. Pers. gul-āb rose-water, f. gul rose + āb water.]
1. A sweet drink prepared in different ways; often, simply a liquid sweetened with syrup or sugar, and used as a vehicle for medicine; sometimes, a medicated drink used as a demulcent, ‘comforting’, or gently stimulating mixture.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 76 To ȝeue him in þe bigynnynge Iulep—þat is a sirup maad oonly of water & of sugre. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. v. ii. 163 Vse them with a iuleb of vyolettes. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) F ij, Iuleb is a cleare potyon made of dyuerse waters and suger. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. ii. iv. 27 The wholesome julap, whose receat Might his diseases lingring force defeat. 1619S. Jerome Origen's Repent. in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 245 It surmounts all juloups. a1625Fletcher Hum. Lieut. ii. ii, The gentleman no doubt will fall to his jewlips. 1673E. Brown Trav. Germ., etc. (1677) 152 We drank frozen Julebs. 1710Steele Tatler No. 174 ⁋3 Gruels and Julips. 1754–64Smellie Midwif. II. 180 By this julap a slight fever was produced. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 679 Cordial Julep..Expectorating Julep..Musk Julep. 1859W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1866) 62 A very soft well-flavoured pleasant saccharine julep.
b. transf. and fig. Something to cool or assuage the heat of passion, etc.
1624Massinger Parl. Love iii. i, She is no fit electuary for a doctor: A coarser julap may well cool his worship. 1652T. Philpot Commend. Verses Benlowes' Theoph., These pages do dispence A Julep, which so charms the Itch of sense That [etc.]. 1659Chamberlayne Pharonnida (N.), Whose heat, not all The jewleps of their tears [could quench].
2. U.S. A mixture of brandy, whisky, or other spirit, with sugar and ice and some flavouring, usually mint.
1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 18/1 The first thing he did on getting out of bed was to call for a Julep; and I..date my own love of whiskey from mixing and tasting my young master's juleps. 1845De Quincey Nat. Temper. Movem. Wks. 1862 XI. 172 An appetite for brandy, for slings, for juleps. 1891B. Harte Family Tasajara II. 48 A dusty drive with a julep at the end of it.
Comb.1859Cornwallis New World I. 76 San Francisco was all bustle and illumination, with glittering bars filled with julep-drinkers. |