Saloop vs Salep - What's the difference?
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salep.
(dated) An aromatic drink originally prepared from salep, and later from sassafras bark and other ingredients such as milk and sugar, once popular in London, England.
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Salep is a related term of saloop.
As nouns the difference between saloop and salep
is that saloop is salep while salep is a starch or jelly made out of orchid-like plants.saloop
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(wikipedia saloop)Alternative forms
* saloupNoun
(en-noun)page 703,
- In simple ordinary diarrhœa, a mixture is prescribed, consisting of two ounces of a decoction of mallow and saloop , and two drops of Sydenham's laudanum.
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- As an alternative to coffee — in periods such as the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it became expensive — a patron might request saloop .
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- He[Charles Lamb] reveals some of their tastes - their likes and dislikes, their humour. And, characteristically, he does so in a digression, that turns out not to be a digression at all, about saloop , a drink made from 'the sweet wood yclept sassafras' and sold at roadside stalls throughout London.