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1688 T. Brown Reasons Mr. Bays 26 Cider and Cool Tankards here are scant, Right Lime-juice we, and Punch moreover want.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cool Tankard, Wine and Water, with a Lemon Sugar and Nutmeg.

1737 O. Sedgewick World turn'd Inside-out i. 10 Cool Tankards are all Mixtures; and yet I dare to appeal to the Quality Fair, whether they were ever disagreeable till Gin came into play.

1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 199/1 This day..the Lord Mayor..partook of a cool tankard at Newgate with Mr. Akerman.

a1836 C. Simeon in W. Carus Mem. Life C. Simeon (1847) i. 12 The day was hot..I drank a great deal of cool tankard.

1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 541 The fresh tops [of borage] were formerly used in cool tankards.

1921 Ld. Rosebery Miscellanies I. 28 Shakespeare and Ben Jonson took their cool tankard at the ‘Mermaid’; we cannot afford, in the strictest view of literary responsibility, to quarrel with them for that.

1995 L. St. C. Robson Mary's Land xvi. 82 Score up twin beers and a cool tankard for the Irishmen.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 142 Cool tankard, Borago officinalis. This plant forms one of the ingredients, with water, wine, lemon, and sugar, in a favourite beverage called cool tankard.

1974 Times 30 Oct. 16/4 Borage..is also known as ‘Cool Tankard’ and ‘Vegetable Ice’, and the starry flowers are picked to float on top of drinks.

2003 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 17 Aug. 7 d The annual herb Borago officinalis has a long history so there are varied opinions about the name. Commonly, it also can be called cool-tankard or talewort.