单词 | calamine lotion |
释义 | calamine lotion From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcalamine lotioncal‧a‧mine lo‧tion /ˈkæləmaɪn ˌləʊʃən $ -ˌloʊ-/ noun [uncountable]MHa pink liquid that you put on sore, itchy, or sunburned skin to make it less painfulExamples from the Corpuscalamine lotion• With all that scratching it should have been calamine lotion.• Here's some calamine lotion for your spots.• I rub on soothing calamine lotion, then don a cotton turtleneck to keep myself from scratching.Origin calamine lotion (1800-1900) calamine “mineral from which zinc is obtained” (1500-1600) French, from Medieval Latin calamina, from Latin cadmia, from Greek, from kadmeios “of Thebes, city in ancient Greece where the mineral was originally found” |
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