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love potion en · NOUN
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A drink supposed to have the magic power to make the drinker fall in love with a specified person.
One love potion was composed of the powdered navel string of a new-born baby boy.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 82:Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine.
1959, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Love Potion No. 9”, performed by The Clovers:
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philtre · philter · love powder · love philtre