Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perfume consisting of the powder of aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together to be worn as a chain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
powdered aromatic herbs , sometimes made into little balls and strung together
Etymologies
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Latin diapasma, Ancient Greek: compare French diapasme.
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Examples
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At any other time the gesticulation of the ostrich plume, so close to his face, would have amused him; but there was something eminently pathetic in the diapasm which drifted toward him from the feather.
Half a Rogue Harold MacGrath 1901
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