Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
musky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun having the olfactory properties of musk
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Examples
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They say things like, “Oh, the bones of the fish give it a nice crunch!” or “The muskiness is so refreshing!”
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I turned off the light and watched the movement of the herd block stars low in the sky, breathed the muskiness that followed them on their journey.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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I turned off the light and watched the movement of the herd block stars low in the sky, breathed the muskiness that followed them on their journey.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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The air is infused with woodsy muskiness, honeysuckle, wild mushrooms, freshly washed chlorinated sheets hanging drenched on a clothes line.
Ménage A Bleu Judith A. Lawrence 2011
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I substituted Pecrino, which might have been a tad sharper and salter than Manchego, but still had the good muskiness of a sheep's milk cheese.
Archive 2008-06-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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As he twisted around in the passenger seat, he was close enough to detect the scent of her freshly shampooed hair, and a slight muskiness from under her sleeveless blouse.
The Body Ricardo 2010
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The morning after he always smelled of tallow and incense and an exciting, foreign muskiness.
Blackballed 2010
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He could still smell the sickening heavy odor of fresh blood, could taste its disgustingly salty muskiness in his mouth.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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Hands on the table, leaning in close enough to smell the sweet muskiness of her perfume.
Twenty-Ten 2010
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I substituted Pecrino, which might have been a tad sharper and salter than Manchego, but still had the good muskiness of a sheep's milk cheese.
The Dangers of Faux Risotto Sarah Lenz 2008
yarb commented on the word muskiness
My father's bait-tin twenty years ago
locked-in the same lush juicy muskiness
and, opened recently, effused
all of the scent of bankside stoups.
- Peter Reading, Earthworks, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008