Meaning of garlicke | Babel Free
Examples
“ante''' 1615: J.H., This World’s Folly; or a Warning-Piece discharged upon the Wickedness thereof I will not particularize those Blitea dramata (as Laberius tearmes another sort⟳) those Fortune-fatted fooles and Time’s Idoets, whose garbe is the Toothache of witte, the Plague-sore of Judgement, the Common-sewer of Obscœnitie, and the Traine-powder that dischargeth the roaring Meg of all scurrile villainies upon the Cities face⟳; who are fain to produce⟳ blinde Impudence to personate himselfe upon their stage⟳, behung with chaynes of garlicke, as an Antidote against their owne infectious breaths, lest it should kill⟳ their Oyster-crying Audience.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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