redolent

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And how could it be supposed for a moment that Galland was capable of conceiving such a tale-- redolent, as it is, of the East and of Fairyland?

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  1. adjective Having or emitting fragrance; aromatic.
  2. adjective Suggestive; reminiscent: a campaign redolent of machine politics.

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  • There was a sea breeze, blood warm, redolent, tropical. —  FSF,September2005
  • So if you still want to be redolent, only less so, work a few of these into your ablutions. —  Esquire.com Article Feed
  • Photographs by Karen Glaser include "Fire in the Swamp, #1" - redolent of "the smell of napalm in the morning" - and a series of inventive underwater images which unexpectedly trace the shallows rather than the deep places. —  Hartford Advocate: News
  • Gadhafi welcomed Rice in a room redolent of incense. —  seMissourian.com Headlines
  • Qaddafi welcomed Rice in a room redolent of incense. —  Taipei Times
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin redolēns, redolent-, present participle of redolēre, to smell : re-, red-, re- + olēre, to smell.

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  1. from Middle English redolent, from Old French redolent =Italian redolente, from Latin redolen (t-)s, present participle of redolere (later Italian redolere, Old French redoler), emit odor, be redolent, from red-, again, + olere, be odorous: see olid.
 

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