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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kænˈθæɹɪdiːz/

名詞

cantharides (uncountable)

1. Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria).
2. Spanish fly; a vesicant extracted from the beetle, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.
   • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 26, in Lud-in-the-Mist:

     I can make the most subtle sauces yield up their secret—whether it be white arsenic, rosalgar, mercury sublimate, or cantharides.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 56:

     Madame de Pompadour used tincture of cantharides to regain the love of Louis XV.

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:

     Speaking her name, it was as if he spake pure cantharides. ‘Quick,’ she panted. ‘There is time before they are all about. Again.’

   • 1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull:

     It’s lucky that Carol had taken the precaution of obtaining some cantharides; without them the evening might have been a dead loss.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612:

     Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.

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