a1635 T. Randolph (1652) 101 Then, when he sung Vlisses had So strange a gift from Acolus, Who odour-breathing Zephyrus In severall bottles did inclose.
1766 T. Hull 7 By ev'ry odour-breathing bed, Where violets nod the purple head.
1893 G. MacDonald Manch. Poem in 428 In me the spring was throbbing; round me lay Resting fulfilled, the odour-breathing summer!