Out and about in town, the ever fragrant one stumbled upon a sign that, she said, made her go all whimsical and Victorian lady .......
...... sighing what a romantic, evocative and under used word from the past "tincture" was .....
...... conjuring up images of those proffering it, clad in crinolines and bonnets and doffing top hats, fussing around an ailing child in need of urgent remedy and then being administered said medicine with a very large, metal spoon, amidst a sea of worried, historical faces!
It's word, we'll freely admit, doesn't get used often enough at The Towers, if, to be honest, at all, but from henceforth and forthwith a dose of Gaviscon, Dulcelax or Covonia will be addressed as such...... what on earth are we like?
3 comments:
When I was a kid, they sometimes put tincture of iodine on cuts.
Tincture means a medicine dissolved in alcohol. Here endeth today's lesson.
I like Mr D’s explanation of a tincture-love anything “in alcohol “.
Do you know they have had to stop leaving the bottles of hand gel at the end of patients beds as some individuals were drinking it. Sad times.
Michele
Tincture - I like that word! I’m sure our little ghost friend is familiar with the word.
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