Saloop

Quick meaning: Saloop is a noun meaning The berry saltbush or red berry saltbush (Chenopodium hastatum, syn. Einadia hastata and Rhagodia hastata), a small plant found in coastal and inland areas of eastern Australia.

Meaning

The berry saltbush or red berry saltbush (Chenopodium hastatum, syn. Einadia hastata and Rhagodia hastata), a small plant found in coastal and inland areas of eastern Australia.

More Meanings

1. Alternative form of salep (“starch or jelly made from orchid plants”).
2. (dated) An aromatic drink originally prepared from salep and later from sassafras bark with other ingredients such as milk and sugar added, which was once popular in London, England.

Example Sentences

SALOOP Rhagodia hastata R. Br. Chenopodiaceae / Deep-green perennial subshrub, usually about 25 cm high, with stems to 75 cm long, woody at base.

As an alternative to coffee – in periods such as the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it became expensive – a patron might request saloop.

He [Charles Lamb] reveals some of their tastes – their likes and dislikes, their humour. And, characteristically, he does so in a digression, that turns out not to be a digression at all, about saloop, a drink made from 'the sweet wood yclept sassafras' and sold at roadside stalls throughout London.

The little sweep would have his saloop smoking hot—and there was the common appliance of a charcoal grate—regaling himself with the savory steam until the mess was cool enough for him to swallow; […] his white teeth the while gleaming from his sooty visage as he gleefully licked his lips at the warm and oily breakfast.

Word Forms

• saloops
• salep
• saloup
• salop

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include salop, salep, saloup, aleberry, salmi, mead.

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