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plantain water en · NOUN
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(archaic, uncountable) A drink made from the plantain plant.
This was not the case with Sancho Panza, whose belly being well replenished, and that not with plantane water, made but one nap of the whole night […].
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8:For those who judge the efficacy of a mouthwash by its unpleasant taste, a rather nauseous remedy can be made from four ounces each of rose-water and plantain-water, an ounce of honey of roses […]
1952, Carroll Camden, Elizabethan Women: