Diamorphine
Glossary term
/daɪəˈmɔːfiːn/
Also appears as: diamorphine
Heroin in its medical clothes. Applied here to Lady Snatch’s burns with the respectability denied it elsewhere.
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Who uses the word
- Lady Kelly Snatch ← receives (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…at least one of the bags on hooks was delivering into her veins a most satisfactory dose of diamorphine - which arrangement, alas, engendered a certain amount of jealousy on the part of her spouse. He, thinner and yellower than ever, and clad as always when at home in his filthy kimono, appeared to be and probably was the subject of the attentions of ants or fleas or lice; for…