Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scented liquid made of alcohol and various fragrant oils.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perfumed spirit, first made on a large scale at Cologne in 1709 by Jean Farina, and still extensively produced there by persons bearing or assuming that name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also
cologne water andeau de cologne .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
perfume consisting of 2-5% essential oils, 70-90 % alcohol and water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League
- noun a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By this time, the cougar has established that you have impeccable taste in cologne, money is no object to you, and that you have loyalty to her store, the store she makes commission at.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Was there some jerk who bathed in cologne and was trying to kill an allergic co-worker? really bc if the public can wear as much scent as they like and no one in your branch is allergic it seems a bit much.
Scents-less kittenpie 2006
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His Eau Sauvage cologne is the only scent in the world I will ever need or want.
Excerpt: Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction by Sue William Silverman 2001
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He was a packrat who never threw anything away, and so obsessively fastidious that he would boil up a saucepan full of old paperclips, drenched in cologne, for reuse.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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He was a packrat who never threw anything away, and so obsessively fastidious that he would boil up a saucepan full of old paperclips, drenched in cologne, for reuse.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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He was a packrat who never threw anything away, and so obsessively fastidious that he would boil up a saucepan full of old paperclips, drenched in cologne, for reuse.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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He was a packrat who never threw anything away, and so obsessively fastidious that he would boil up a saucepan full of old paperclips, drenched in cologne, for reuse.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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The cologne is available at Rickey’s, a New York City retailer.
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The cologne, which is made and marketed under license by privately held Coty Inc., posted sales of about $85.5 million last year, according to estimates by market-data firm Euromonitor International Inc.
Big Cats Obsess Over Calvin Klein's 'Obsession for Men' 2010
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I'm with you; would love to combine the two...though the price point on the cologne is a bit more realistic than that for the house.
The Bermuda Perfumery Navy Lime Marina Geigert 2009
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