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单词 fragrance
释义

fragrancen.

Brit. /ˈfreɪɡr(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˈfreɪɡrəns/
Etymology: < Old French fragrance, < late Latin frāgrantia , < frāgrans : see fragrant adj.
Sweetness of smell; sweet or pleasing scent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant smell
savouringc1390
scent?1473
balm1483
redolencec1530
spice1560
perfumea1593
redolency1610
soot1620
fragor1638
suaveolence1657
fragrance1667
incense1667
nosegay1700
aroma1814
musk1855
petrichor1964
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 425 Eve separate he spies, Veild in a Cloud of Fragrance . View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 92 A cruise of fragrance, form'd of burnish'd gold.
1748 T. Gray Ode in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 265 Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 131 As they sat in the cool fragrance of this delicious spot.
1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxii. 67 Inhaling the fragrance of baked apples afar from the refectory.
figurative.1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 54 To meet again..and share The inward fragrance of each other's heart.1838 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1839) IV. xvii. 297 Years that are past bear in retrospect so much of fragrance with them.

Derivatives

ˈfragrance v. (transitive) to fill with fragrance.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > impart perfume [verb (transitive)]
embalm1447
aromatize1480
fumea1483
incense?1504
fumigate1530
perfume1539
suffume1540
scent1567
aromatizate1576
sweetena1586
suffumigate1599
frot1608
inodorate1623
suffite1657
essencificate1658
essence1675
essencify1707
balmify1733
odoriferize1824
fragrance1854
reperfume1885
smeech1897
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 449 The rose-bush fragrances all the vale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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