Both Uses
essence
in
A Room With A View
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- She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade, of the semi-detached cottages which were ruining Summer Street, and breaking the heart of Sir Harry Otway.†
Chpt 5
- Sir Harry is the essence of that garden-party.†
Chpt 9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(essence) the defining or most important quality of something
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)