mulse
English
editEtymology
editLatin mulsum (vinum), from mulsus (“mixed with honey, honey-sweet”), past participle of mulcere (“sweeten, soften”).
Noun
editmulse (uncountable)
- (historical or archaic) Wine or water boiled and mixed with honey.
- 1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The Dawn in Britain, page 135:
- Rome's herdfolk, […] Leaned on their elbows; drinking mulse and milk, In yewen cups, […]
References
edit- OED
- “mulse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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