redolence

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redolence (countable and uncountable, plural redolences)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being redolent.
    • 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, column 2:
      The air was wine and seltzer, perfumed, as they absorbed it, with the delicate redolence of prairie flowers.
  2. (countable) An evocative fragrance.

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