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- noun Plural form of
redolence .
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Examples
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A listen to speech recordings of old people from parts of provincial England, very clearly turns up redolences of the drawl which we rather snootily deride.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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What would eventually be fairy tales still had redolences of god-stories and myths.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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In all there were over eleven hundred tobacco-and-gin redolences, remarkably quiet for them; shooting at a mark, going through squad drill, drinking bad liquor by the canteen and swearing in
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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So that F, more than any other letter, encapsulates the experience of failing and death and brings these fatal redolences, like hovering ghosts, to many a shadowed word.
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