redolent
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
redolent
- Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
- Having the smell of the article in question.
- 1861, Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. 32:
- His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:
- Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
- 1861, Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. 32:
- (idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
- 1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision:
- But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
- But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
- 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:
- He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.''
- 1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision:
- (fragrant or aromatic) aromatic, fragrant
- (having the smell of) reeking, smelling
- (suggestive or reminiscent) reminiscent, suggestive
- Spanish: redolente
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