TISANE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Tisane

... tisane eagerly when I heard whose fair hands had compounded it, and its effects were speedily beneficial to me, for I sank into a ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... anyone called, Virginie or Madame Boche, to ask after her health, she would not reply directly, but immediately started on her list of complaints: "Oh, I pay dearly for the food I eat here. I'd be much better off with strangers. I asked for a cup of tisane and they brought me an entire pot of hot water. It was a way of saying that I drank too much. I brought Nana up myself and she scurries away in her bare feet every morning and I never see her again all day. Then at night she sleeps so soundly that she never wakes up to ask me if I'm in ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola