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单词 redolent
释义
redolentred‧o‧lent /ˈredəl-ənt/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINredolent
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French, Latin, present participle of redolere ‘to send out a smell’, from olere ‘to smell’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Here we are, by a redolent log fire, in a world which has slipped from sight.
  • Incredibly, the minister was redolent with baby powder.
  • It was hot and jammed and the air was redolent with the sickly sweet smell of cheap champagne.
  • Karpov's play in game 17 was a text book model of strategy, redolent of his very best days.
  • Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society.
  • The air was redolent of cannabis.
  • The portrait is an endlessly interesting example, a theme redolent with social connotations and artistic references.
  • The two awaited her return in a kitchen redolent with the smell of home baking.
word sets
WORD SETS
air freshener, nounbittersweet, adjectivebody odour, nounbody spray, nounbouquet, nounfetid, adjectivefoul, adjectivefragrance, nounfragrant, adjectivefrankincense, nounfunk, nounheavy, adjectiveincense, nounminty, adjectivemusk, nounmusty, adjectiveodoriferous, adjectiveodorous, adjectiveodour, nounodourless, adjectiveolfactory, adjectiveperfume, nounperfume, verbredolent, adjectivereek, verbrich, adjectivesavour, nounscent, nounsweet, adjectivewhiff, noun
1 formal making you think of something SYN  reminiscentredolent of a style redolent of the sixties2 literary smelling strongly of somethingredolent of/with The bar was redolent with the smell of stale cigarette smoke.
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