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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Posset

properly means a drink taken before going to bed; it was milk curdled with wine.

“In his morning's draught ... his concerves or cates ... and when he goeth to bedde his posset smoaking hot.” —Man in the Moone (1609).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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