scent-bottle

noun

Definitions

  1. A small elegant bottle containing perfume.

    • She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy
    • There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses.

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Vish — recursive loop

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

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