well-wash'd

Updated: May 9, 2025

Suppose these books becoming absorb'd, the permanent chyle of American general and particular character what a well-wash'd and grammatical, but bloodless and helpless, race we should turn out!

Walt Whitman - Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

To broil Truffles. This is a very good way of eating them, but the other I have more frequently eaten. To Stew Truffles in Wine. The Truffles must be peel'd from the rough Coat on the outside, and well-wash'd; then cut your Truffles into Slices, and stew them in White wine, or Claret, which you please, with Salt, Pepper, and a Bay-leaf; or in the lieu of that, some Jamaica Pepper, and serve them.

Richard Bradley - The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm