AQUA TOFANA

Definition: AQUA TOFANA

AQUA TOFANA

1. A fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. --Francis.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: AQUA TOFANA

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Literature	Aqua Tofana or Acqua Tofanica. A poisonous liquid much used in Italy in the seventeenth century by young wives who wanted to get rid of their husbands. It was invented by a woman named Tofana, who called it the Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari, from the widespread notion that an oil of miraculous efficacy flowed from the tomb of that saint. In Italian called also Aquella di Napoli. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: AQUA TOFANA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-f-n-o-q-t-u"
	-4 letters: quanta.
	-5 letters: fauna, fount, futon, qanat, quant, quota.
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