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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Powdered perfume for use in sachets.

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Examples

  • A faint aroma of delicate food and fading flowers and woman's sachet-powder hung about him.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • In the stage the day he started for Philadelphia, William King read over his Martha's memorandum with the bewildered carefulness peculiar to good husbands: ten yards of crash; a pitcher for sorghum; samples of yarn; an ounce of sachet-powder, and so forth.

    The Awakening of Helena Richie Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

  • But when at last she did say, "And my sachet-powder?" he was compelled to admit that he had forgotten it.

    The Awakening of Helena Richie Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

  • "Now, what on earth does she want sachet-powder for?" he reflected.

    The Awakening of Helena Richie Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

  • "And what did you want sachet-powder for, anyway?"

    The Awakening of Helena Richie Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

  • Your waking will be only a sentimental and perfumed regret -- a sachet-powder sorrow. "

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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