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Definition of 'saloop'Alternative forms
* saloup
Noun
( en-noun)
salep.
(dated) An aromatic drink originally prepared from salep, and later from sassafras bark and other ingredients such as milk and sugar, once popular in London, England.
* 1835 , London Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 7, page 703 ,
- In simple ordinary diarrhœa, a mixture is prescribed, consisting of two ounces of a decoction of mallow and saloop , and two drops of Sydenham's laudanum.
* 2003 , Antony Clayton, London's Coffee Houses: A Stimulating Story , page 31 ,
- As an alternative to coffee — in periods such as the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it became expensive — a patron might request saloop .
* 2004 , Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson, Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge , page 261 ,
- He[Charles Lamb] reveals some of their tastes - their likes and dislikes, their humour. And, characteristically, he does so in a digression, that turns out not to be a digression at all, about saloop , a drink made from 'the sweet wood yclept sassafras' and sold at roadside stalls throughout London.
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* salep
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