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Gallipot

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Someone who uses such pots; an apothecary. archaic

    "‘We are physicians' gallipots. Don't you want the sick healed?’"

Etymology

From uncertain first element + pot.

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