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odour(dictionary)
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Fish-odour syndrome(medicine)
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History (as used in expressions) (sh) and odour (iou)


History (as used in expressions) (sh)


odour (iou)



odour noun. Also *odor. ME.
[Anglo-Norman, Old French odor, odur (mod. odeur) from Latin odor smell, scent.]
The property of a substance that is perceptible by the sense of smell; a scent, a smell. ME.
odour of sanctity [French odeur de saintete] a sweet or balsamic odour reputedly emitted by the bodies of saints at or after death; fig. a state of holiness or saintliness; joc. & derog. sanctimoniousness.
E. F. Benson The odour of the flower-beds and the smell of the dewy grass. A. Gibbs A strong odour of paper and printers' ink.
a. A pervasive quality or trace attaching to something. ME.
J. H. Burton No odour of religious intolerance attaches to it.
b. Good or bad repute, regard, or estimation. E19.
N. Mitford St. Germain fell into bad odour with the police.
A thing or substance emitting a sweet smell or scent; a perfume. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
Comb.: odour-blindness an inability to perceive a particular smell or range of smells.
odoured adjective having an odour or scent (of a specified kind) LME.
odourful adjective = ODOROUS L19.
odourless adjective M19.
odourlessness noun L19.