Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ambrosial manner; with an ambrosial odor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
ambrosial manner.
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Examples
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Your cheeks are pale, and have got faded by exposure to evening parties, and you are obliged to take curling-irons, and macassar, and the deuce-knows-what to your whiskers; they curl ambrosially, and you are very grand and genteel, and so forth; but, ah!
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Your cheeks are pale, and have got faded by exposure to evening parties, and you are obliged to take curling-irons, and macassar, and the deuce-knows-what to your whiskers; they curl ambrosially, and you are very grand and genteel, and so forth; but, ah!
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Your cheeks are pale, and have got faded by exposure to evening parties, and you are obliged to take curling-irons, and macassar, and the deuce knows what to your whiskers; they curl ambrosially, and you are very grand and genteel, and so forth; but, ah!
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Have you ever tasted a kiwi fruit, raised the floppy flesh from the hacked brown salad and proclaimed it as one of the most ambrosially delicious things on earth?
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In pursuance of which, "Did ye ever notice," said Captain Leezur, sitting on the log in the late sunshine, ambrosially sucking a nervine lozenge; "did ye ever notice, major, how
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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