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Fragrance   /frˈeɪgrəns/   Listen
Fragrance

noun
1.
A distinctive odor that is pleasant.  Synonyms: aroma, perfume, scent.
2.
A pleasingly sweet olfactory property.  Synonyms: bouquet, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness.






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"Fragrance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Crisco's purity is shown by this simple test: Break open a hot biscuit in which Crisco has been used. You will note a sweet fragrance, ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil

... is covered with a dense undergrowth of sweet myrtle, so much prized by the horticulturalists of England. The shrub here often attains the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and forms an almost impenetrable coppice, burthening the air with its fragrance. ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson

... could I roam through Fortune's bowers, I would twine a wreath of the sweetest flowers, Whose beauty and fragrance should ne'er depart— But brighten thy home ...
— Canadian Wild Flowers • Helen M. Johnson

... some change, some new excitement in his mind, in her own absorption in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole

... A delicious fragrance was now wafted over the wall as of flowers, and the poor boy imagined untold loveliness behind that cruel wall, as he tended the dandelions his mother brought him from the Common, when she had time to stop and gather them; for he loved flowers dearly, and tried to make them out of colored paper, ...
— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott


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