potable gold
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potable gold
Where it comes from
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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A theoretical substance which would confer eternal life on the drinker.
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.
Similar: elixir of life
- A preparation consisting of gold particles in oil and alcohol. The tincture of the gold known as Mademoiselle Grimaldi's potable gold had a wide reputation in the eighteenth century as an aphrodisiac stimulant.
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