What does suaveolent mean?
Suaveolent means (rare) Sweet-smelling..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) Sweet-smelling..
Aromatization is an artificiall manner of preparation, whereby Medicaments are made more odoriferous, and ſuaveolent, to the better acceptation of the palate, and heart, and the greater ſtrength and oblectation to the vitall and animall faculties.
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.
[…]—Guyana, spatha white, base red, suaveolent.
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:—[…]
Captivating buds releasing suaveolent perfume, their candied summer fragrance floated gently within satiny winds that blew as the two stood united alongside a sometimes rolling irrigation ditch of bracing waters from Santaquin Canyon.
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;
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Suaveolent means (rare) Sweet-smelling..
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Aromatization is an artificiall manner of preparation, whereby Medicaments are made more odoriferous, and ſuaveolent, to the better acceptation of the palate, and heart, and the greater ſtrength and oblectation to the vitall and animall faculties.
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