Apollinaris

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A type of sparkling mineral water. archaic, uncountable

    "Neither had he then, in answer, to articulate anything but the jollity of their having found a table at a window from which, as they partook of cold beef and apollinaris [...] they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English a promise of safety."

Example

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"Apollinaris, doctor of Emperor Titus, took a good crap here."

Etymology

Originally ‘Apollinaris water’, from Apollinarisburg, a hill near Bonn, Germany.

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