How to pronounce hartshorn
American English pronunciation
HARTS-horn
- IPA
- /ˈhɑɹtsˌhɔɹn/
- Syllables
- HARTS · horn (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What hartshorn means
Smelling salts once made from a deer's antlers
In a sentence: In the old story, the maid waved a bottle of hartshorn under the dizzy lady's nose.
Where it comes from: It is made from hart, an old word for a male deer, and horn.
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