foresmells

Noun

foresmell (plural foresmells)

1. A smell which precedes or comes before something.
   • His father, a man of sixty, shorter than Hugh and also pudgier, had aged unappetizingly during his recent widowhood; his things let off a characteristic foresmell, faint but unmistakable, and he grunted and sighed in his sleep, dreaming of large unwieldy blocks of blackness [...].1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 10

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