bromo-seltzer

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English

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Etymology

From bromo- +‎ seltzer.

Noun

bromo-seltzer (plural bromo-seltzers)

  1. A type of proprietary effervescent sedative containing a mixture of bromides.
    Synonym: bromo
    • a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
      "Wait a minute." Ida, with bedroom slippers clattering, hurried back to her room, returned with a bottle of bromo seltzer and in the bathroom fixed Susan a dose. "You'll feel all right in half an hour or so. Gee, but you're swell—with your own bathroom."
    • 1920 April, F Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II (The Education of a Personage), page 214:
      He heard Carling addressing a remark to the bartender: “Give him a bromo-seltzer.” Amory shook his head indignantly. “None that stuff!”