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noun
Vinegar mixed with camphor and essential oils, formerly used as medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, uncountable
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History
From the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. Possibly originally a corruption of "Forthave's vinegar", Richard Forthave being the publisher of an early recipe.
