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Concoction

noun

Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients. Synonyms: intermixture, mixture. "He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"

An occurrence of an unusual mixture.

The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose. "She has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"

The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components. Synonym: confection.

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"Concoction" Quotes from Famous Books

... her mother in her early girlhood as a solemn duty, and had entailed much self-denial in matters of food and drink, quantities being restricted, and certain things prohibited at certain times, while others were forbidden altogether. She had had to exercise patience, also, in the concoction and use of delicately perfumed washes of tonic and emollient properties, home distilled, so as to be perfectly pure; all of which had been strictly practised by her, like sacred rites or superstitious observances upon the exact performance of which ...

— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand

... Talk was Interrupted By the Entrance of other Guests, I Quaffed Another Crystal Goblet of My Friend's Brain-Maddening Concoction, and casting a long, lingering Look at the Persian Rug which hid the Graeco-Romanesque Architecture of the vaulted Ceiling, I passed from the Gothic Portals of this Esthetic Shrine into the outer darkness—beyond the glamour of the ...

— Love Instigated - The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle • Douglass Sherley

... or ride. Before the Duchess had been within the Palace a month, she was imitated in every way. Great ladies became so familiar, they would take up her articles of the toilet and copy the manufacturer's name. They in a short time were using the same concoction of rouge and perfumes. Their maids must learn what Janet did for her mistress in the way of baths, for "never was there such healthful and dainty complexion." And when the Duke began buying cocoanuts by the wagon load at an enormous expense, and 'twas known that her ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... concoction did its work; the men of the camps and trails unbent in its genial glow, and jest and song and tales of past ...

— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London

... step toward the entrance to the pool as though to corroborate my story. For that instant everything hung in the balance, for had he done so and found the empty submarine still lying at her wharf the whole weak fabric of my concoction would have tumbled about our heads; but evidently he decided the message must be genuine, nor indeed was there any good reason to doubt it since it would scarce have seemed credible to him that two slaves would voluntarily have given themselves into custody in any such manner ...

— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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