| 单词 | revalenta arabica |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRevalenta Arabica In full Revalenta Arabica. A preparation of lentil and barley flour, sold as a food for invalids. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun] gruel1362 water gruel?c1450 cullisc1460 chicken brothc1540 coulis1603 barley-milk1607 maize-cream1626 chicken water1684 barley-cream1694 thin gruel1699 viper-broth1702 wangracea1733 barley-gruel1769 beef-tea1783 conjee1789 Revalenta1848 skink1880 toast-water1905 1848 Rambler Apr. 320/1 (advt.) A spurious imitation of Warton's Ervalenta having been lately advertised under the name of ‘Revalenta Arabica’, the public should guard against imposition. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 466/1 The so-called invalids' food, which under the names Ervalenta and Revalenta has attained no little celebrity. 1917 R. Hutchison Food Princ. Dietetics (ed. 4) xiii. 235 A soup-plateful of Revalenta..yields thirty-six Calories less than a similar quantity of good porridge, but is slightly richer in protein and mineral matter. 1934 D. C. Peel in G. M. Young Early Victorian Eng. I. ii. 119 Revalenta Arabica cured the Countess of Castlestuart of nervousness, indigestion, bile, and irritability. 2008 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 16 It was here that James would take his last breath after prescriptions of Valentine's meat juice, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica invalid food, [etc.],..failed to restore him. < as lemmas |
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