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salop

Salep \Sal"ep\ (s[a^]l"[e^]p), n. [Ar. sahleb, perhaps a corruption of an Arabic word for fox, one Ar. name of the orchis signifying literally, fox's testicles: cf. F. salep.] The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.
--U. S. Disp.

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salop

n. (alternative form of saloop English)

Usage examples of "salop".

I was going to resume my daily course of business I was called to preach in a church at Salop, and was obliged to compose a sermon in the moments I should have spent in prayer.

Wethersfield in Essex, in 1806, then for a few months at Wellington, Salop, in 1809.

It embraced portions of the counties of Radnor, Montgomery, Salop, Worcester, and Gloucester, and touched upon that of Brecon.

Brochwel walks down the Salop Road -- so called because it comes from Shropshire and is thus Salopian -- and looks at the humble shop where, a lifetime ago, Walter Gilmartin and Janet and their children, and as many Jenkinses and other Gilmartins as could thrust themselves through the easy door, had played out their domestic tragedy, or melo­drama, or farce, or whatever you choose to call it.