juniper tar
noun
: a tarry liquid used topically in treating skin diseases and obtained by distillation from the wood of a Eurasian juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus)
called also cade oil, juniper tar oil
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As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
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Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Juniper tar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/juniper%20tar. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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