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gallipots

gallipots is the plural of gallipot.

Meaning of gallipot

Noun

gallipot (plural gallipots)

  1. A small, glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding medicine and ointment.
    • VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of tincture, high roſe tincture.1625 January 19 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Ben Jonson], The Fortunate Isles and Their Union. […], [London: s.n.], published [1625], →OCLC, signature [A4], verso
  2. (archaic) Someone who uses such pots; an apothecary.
    • ‘We are physicians' gallipots. Don't you want the sick healed?’1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11

Questions about gallipots

What is gallipots the plural of?
Gallipots is the plural of gallipot.

Words near gallipots in the dictionary

  1. Gallipolians
  2. Gallipolis
  3. gallipot
  4. gallipot word
  5. gallipot words
  6. gallipots
  7. gallise
  8. gallised
  9. gallises
  10. gallisin
  11. gallising

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