heartbalm
English
Alternative forms
- heart balm
- heart-balm
Etymology
Noun
heartbalm (plural heartbalms)
- Something that soothes a person's fears or emotions.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 211:
- So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 211:
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