julep

• julap (dated)

From Middle English, from Old French julep, from Medieval Latin julapium, via Arabic جُلَاب (julāb) from Persian گلاب (golâb, “rosewater”), from گل (“rose”) + آب (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːlɛp/

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julep (plural juleps)

1. A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol.
   • 1929, William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, page 184:

     He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.

   • 1999, “The Brouhaha”, in Hello Nasty, performed by Beastie Boys:

     Yo, we be making mountains out of Cool Whip / Pass me the mint for the julep

   • 2014, John T. Edge, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 198:

     In 1797 the American Museum described the Virginian who upon rising “drinks a julep made of rum, water, and sugar, but very strong.” The mint was added a few years later.

2. (historical, medicine) A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken.
   • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 189:

     Contraction of the left ventricular orifice, with hypertrophy of the corresponding ventricle; catarrh at the superior part of the right lung. (Julep; digital; aperit. oxymel scillit.)

• mint julep

• “julep”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• mint julep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French julep.

julep n (plural julepuri)

1. julep