lavender-watern.
/ˈlav(ᵻ)ndəˌwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈlævəndərˌwɔdər/, /ˈlævəndərˌwɑdər/ A perfume compounded, with alcohol and ambergris, from the distilled flowers of lavender.
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1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 99 Distil it in a limbek of glas..into which put a little Lauender water & peper.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xciii. 307 They bathed the Part with Lavender Water.
a1863 W. M. Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Profess. in Misc. Wks. IV. 21 What a fine odour of lavender-water!
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