Suaveolent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Suaveolent is an adjective meaning (rare) Sweet-smelling.
Meaning
(rare) Sweet-smelling.
Example Sentences
[…]—Guyana, spatha white, base red, suaveolent.
High over head, sublimely through the air, / Suaveolent, the viands valets bear, / And pacing lightly the well-cushion’d ground, / Though nowhere heard, yet, every where are found.
The cold-store was (inevitably, I suppose) the tabernacle before which I made my own private devotions, for there the great carcasses hung – alluring and suaveolent, raw and richly sweaty;
Lovely Miss Lwan, says the Cantonese story, was now about eighteen, when the following incidents, suaveolent with smiles, blushes, heart-sighs, erotic poetry and a “fragrant chamber,” made her soul quite a palace for pleasure:—[…]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fragrant, sweet-smelling, sweet, redolent, savorly, odorative.
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