1611. Cotgr., Consolateur, a consolator, solacer, comforter.
1803. Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge, in Final Mem., iv. 225. A pipe and some generous Port, and King Lear … had their effect as solacers.
1873. Miss Braddon, Lucius Davoren, I. Prol. i. 7. Tobacco, that sweet solacer of weary hours.
