absinthian

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of the nature of wormwood.

   • Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets
2. 2

   Of or pertaining to absinthe.

   • The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […]
   • The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.
   • The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.

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