Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perfumed.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
odor . - adjective having an
odor , especially having a specified odor
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Examples
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Ira Einhorn was a '60s stalwart in Philadelphia, a boisterous, body-odored hippie who organized the local Be In. In the' 70s, he began cultivating New Age millionaires and progressive corporate executives -- for the good of The Earth and some consultant contracts.
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Ram and I, along with the trader's family, were seated in folding chairs set up on the agency lawn, facing the old oak on the drill field and its evil-odored fruit.
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Its shadowy body and its fir-odored volume of ancient vapors descended upon me and, with salty quivers, activated forgotten imprints into vivid experience.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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The vivid turf was sown with all the flowers of spring, -- primrose, violet, buttercup, anemone, and veronica, -- faint, but sweetest-odored, and the heralds of spring in all lands.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various
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It was sending forth ill -- odored smoke and but little light.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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There is one species, the disgusting mushroom, M. impudicus, that Stevenson says has a strong, unpleasant odor; this is also the case in two other species, the ill-odored mushroom, M. fœtidus, and the penetrating mushroom,
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Mr. Bulmer read on, with a bewildered face, while I gently stirred the contents of my tall and delectably odored glass.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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They, too, sounded thin and remote, drifting up through the soft, warm air that had always seemed so exotic to him, so redolent of foreign-odored flowers, so burdened with alien-smelling tobacco smoke, of unfamiliar sea scents incongruously shot through with even the fumes of an unknown and indescribable cookery.
Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912
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He followed the figure down the narrow stairway, through the sliding door, out into the many-odored street, foul with refuse, bisected by its open sewer of filth, took a turning into a still narrower street, climbed a precipitous hill cobbled with stone, turned still again, always overshadowed and hemmed in by tall houses close together, with black-beamed lattice doors through which he could catch glimpses of gloomy interiors.
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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Offensive odored sputum should always suggest bronchial foreign body; but absence of sputum, odorous or not, should not exclude foreign body.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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