Placidyl
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Marketing name, apparently from placid + -yl.
Noun[edit]
Placidyl (countable and uncountable, plural Placidyls)
- (pharmacology) Trade name of ethchlorvynol, a sedative.
- 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 151:
- His horror of insomnia, compounded with a family history of compulsive worrying, caused him to down three or four Placidyls, Seconals, Quaaludes, or Tuinals almost every night—and often it was a combination of all four.