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Definition of "turps" [turps]

  • Informal Turpentine. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "turps" in a sentence
  • "She could smell a chemical which a colleague described as turps."
  • ""Quelle langue! quelle _langue est la langue_ Américaine!" sniffed the elder Swede, wiping off a brushful of "turps" in her back hair."
  • "When the wax is sufficiently cold, which it will be in a quarter of an hour after finishing, commence colouring, by using the colours direct from the tubes, with as little admixture of "turps" as possible."