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afterscent

noun

Etymology

From after- + scent.

  1. derived from *sent-✻ — “to feel”
  2. derived from sentiō — “to feel, sense”
  3. derived from sentir — “to feel, perceive, smell, sense”
  4. inherited from sent
  5. formed as afterscent — “after- + scent”

Definitions

  1. A scent that follows something

    A scent that follows something; a scent remaining after its source is no longer present.

    • 1861, R. H. Chermside, An Only Son, Chapter 21, in Dublin University Magazine Volume 58, No. 343, p. 185, “Prickly plants of disappointment spring up in so many shapes! Yet some have flowers of sweet afterscent. […] ”
    • Men—even those strongly addicted to the weed—seldom smoked in their own houses, the female prejudice against the after-scent of tobacco running remarkably high in the early “fifties.”
    • He closed the bathroom door with a muted creak so that he could turn on the light without its pale square opening on the wall in the bedroom where his wife lay. The warm after-scent of a bath met him.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afterscent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA