Succesʹsion Powder
. The poison used by the Marquise de Brinvilliers in her poisonings, for the benefit of successors. (See Poisoners.)
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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.