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scent-bottle

scent-bottle noun: a small elegant bottle containing perfume.

Noun

scent-bottle (plural scent-bottles)

  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 handy1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 3, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC
    • 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.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

Forms of scent-bottle

pluralscent-bottles
alternative formscent bottle

Questions about scent-bottle

What does scent-bottle mean?
Scent-bottle means a small elegant bottle containing perfume.
What part of speech is scent-bottle?
Scent-bottle is a noun.
What is the plural of scent-bottle?
The plural of scent-bottle is scent-bottles.

Words near scent-bottle in the dictionary

  1. scent marking
  2. scent marks
  3. scent out
  4. scent pad
  5. scent pads
  6. scent-bottle
  7. scent-bottles
  8. scentable
  9. scented
  10. scented grass
  11. scented out

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