potable gold

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A theoretical substance which would confer eternal life on the drinker. uncountable
    — This tradition found its way to the West in the notion of ‘potable gold’ (aurum potabile), a medicine that, if drunk, would cure all manner of ills.
  2. A preparation consisting of gold particles in oil and alcohol. historical,uncountable
    — The tincture of the gold known as Mademoiselle Grimaldi's potable gold had a wide reputation in the eighteenth century as an aphrodisiac stimulant.

词源

From potable + gold. From being something drinkable that is like gold.
* (alchemy): from being an elixir that confers the untarnishability and eternity of gold to a person
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