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sáp

  • noun [ feminine ]
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sáp, e; f. (?)
Amber, resin, pomade
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  • Sáp, smelting (cf. smulting electrum, 94, 61) succinum vel

    electrum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 31.
  • Reádre deáge (in margin, sápe) rubro stibio (the word occurs in a passage treating of dressing the hair, cf.

    the passage in Pliny describing the use and invention of

    'sapo:' Gallorum hoc inventum rutilandis capillis; fit ex sebo et cinere optimus fagino et caprino, duobus modis, spissus ac liquidus: uterque apud Germanos majore in usu viris quam feminis),
      Hpt. Gl. 435, 17. v. sápe and next word.
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