A recompense: a sop; a solace. (Latin, solātium.)
“It may be that Mr. Elden will be persuaded to take one, by way of solatium for his defeat in Somersetshire.”—Newspaper paragraph, December, 1885.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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