balsamic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌbɔːlˈsæmɪk/
Etymology
From balsam + -ic and French balsamique. Doublet of balsamico and piecewise doublet of balmy.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Producing balsam.
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(not-comparable) Having the health-giving properties of balsam; soothing, restorative.
[…] the Souls of men also shall then catch life from the more pure and Balsamick parts of the Earth, and be cloathed again in terrestriall bodies […]
1662, John Heydon, The Harmony of the World, London: Robert Horn, Epistle Dedicatory:
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(not-comparable) Having the pleasant odour of balsam; balmy, fragrant.
he stood in the road, fragrant with the odor of the azaleas in the undergrowth and the balsamic breath of the low-hanging firs, which were all fibrously a-glitter wherever the moon touched the dew in the dense midst of their shadows.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 14:
Deriveds
balsamical · balsamic vinegar · balsamically · balsamic vinaigrette · balsamic moon
Translations (7)
fi palsamintuoksuinen (having the pleasant odour of balsam) · eo balzama (producing balsam) · fi palsami- (producing balsam) · fi rauhoittava (soothing, restorative) · fi palsamia tuottava (producing balsam) · pl balsamiczny (having the pleasant odour of balsam) · pl balsamiczny (soothing, restorative)