turpentine• The place stank of paraffin and turpentine and dryrot.• It tells of homes set aflame, planes dropping turpentinebombs and the wantonshooting of unarmed black men on the street.• More like turpentine, but it's really effective.• She found only half a pint of turpentine.• Tom picked up a brush and moistened it in the turpentinecup.• I felt the velvetdrapes and smelt the turpentine but loathed the girlishshoes I had to pose in.• He told him it was turpentine.• The warehouse walls blended into each other like a painting drenched with turpentine.
Originturpentine
(1300-1400)Old Frenchtourbentine, from Latinterebinthina, from terebinthus tree from which turpentine is obtained, from Greekterebinthos