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Aphrodisiac   Listen
noun
Aphrodisiac  n.  That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) stimulate sexual desire.






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"Aphrodisiac" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. Cantarella, he calls it—Cantharides. Why Cantarella? Possibly because it is a pleasing, mellifluous word that will help a sentence hang together smoothly; possibly because the notorious aphrodisiac properties of that drug suggested it to Giovio as just the poison to be kept handy by folk addicted to the pursuits which he and others attribute to the Borgias. Can you surmise any better reason? For observe that Giovio describes the Cantarella for you—a blunder of his which gives the lie ...
— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini



Words linked to "Aphrodisiac" :   stimulant, sexy, stimulant drug



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