odoriferous

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Now I appeal to you, who have got rid of these Bushmen, and who know so well how odoriferous is the skin of a Hottentot, whether a lion's nose is not much more likely to be attracted by one of either of these tribes of people, than it would by either you or me.

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  1. adjective Having or giving off an odor.

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  • No home was left desolate, but many were made odoriferous, and still carry within their walls some souvenir of that great occasion And then came the closing of the pit. —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
  • The wine is excellent; light, odoriferous, with a smartness like a sharp child's prattle Montaigne. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • Now I appeal to you, who have got rid of these Bushmen, and who know so well how odoriferous is the skin of a Hottentot, whether a lion's nose is not much more likely to be attracted by one of either of these tribes of people, than it would by either you or me. —  The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
  • I hope he enjoys the odoriferous, sudoriferous resting-place. —  Hurricane Hurry
  • It may be matter of private opinion how far the lucre derived by your Lordship from commission on the fares and refreshments of the passengers by the North-Western may be odoriferous or precious, in the same sense as the ointment on the head of Aaron; or how far that received by the Primate of England in royalties on the circulation of improving literature[129] may enrich--as with perfumes out of broken alabaster--the empyreal air of Addington. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
 

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  1. = Old French odorifere = Spanish odorífero = Portuguese Italian odorifero, from Latin odorifer, bringing or spreading odors, from odor, odor, + ferre = English bear.
 

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