Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.
Wiktionary
- n. The characteristic of being musky.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.
WordNet 3.0
- n. having the olfactory properties of musk
Examples
“They say things like, “Oh, the bones of the fish give it a nice crunch!” or “The muskiness is so refreshing!””
“The air is infused with woodsy muskiness, honeysuckle, wild mushrooms, freshly washed chlorinated sheets hanging drenched on a clothes line.”
“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.”
“The morning after he always smelled of tallow and incense and an exciting, foreign muskiness.”
“Hands on the table, leaning in close enough to smell the sweet muskiness of her perfume.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He could still smell the sickening heavy odor of fresh blood, could taste its disgustingly salty muskiness in his mouth.”
“It had a striking melon flavor, but the unpleasant muskiness came too quickly forward.”
“There was virtually no aroma, save a faint earthy muskiness.”
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yarb 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 Jun 22, 2008