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- adjective Alternative spelling of
odorous .
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Examples
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The large amounts of odourous residue that are produced cannot be satisfactorily disposed of.
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As usual, the first blast of Ireta's odourous atmosphere took Kai's breath away.
Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978
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The house was full of flowers; as if it had plunged into seas of them, it dripped with an odourous rosy foam.
The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark
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A fugitive wind rollicking in from sea next morning swept through the palace and went on around the world; and thereafter it had an hundred odourous ways of attracting attention, which were merely its own tale of what pleasant things it had seen and heard on high.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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So potent was the spell of the prince's hospitality, and so gracious the insistence with which he set before them the strange and odourous dishes, that even Olivia, eager almost to tears for news of her father, and Mrs. Hastings, as critical and suspicious as some beetle with long antennæ, might not refuse them.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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Not one of the women near me but is degrading to look upon and odourous to approach.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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One plate is piled high with fish -- bones, skin and flesh all together in one odourous mass.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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Scarcely has the miserable little object, ragged and odourous, passed me with his long broom, which he drags half-heartedly along, than the space he has swept up is cotton-strewn again.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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Many nights did it happen that the stertorous melody of Webster's all too odourous slumbers drove Cameron to find a bed upon the floor.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898
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The dark fir-woods spread around us, and their odourous breath was diffused through the cool, still air.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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