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redolent

re duh luhnt

  • s  serving to bring to mind
    cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson
    a campaign redolent of machine politics
  • s  (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous
    the hall was redolent of floor wax
    air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey
  • s  having a strong pleasant odor
    the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford

  • The room was redolent of urine and decaying flesh and forced the investigator to cover his nose with cloth.
  • The monastary was redolent of incense and rose and a rhythmic chant was wafting up the sanctum sanctorium.
  • The neighborhood was redolent of the lifestyle os the sixties where the days were languid and the nights were a swirl of smoke and haze.
News & Articles

  • North Shore clams fried to fame
    No matter how much kale and assorted leafy greens we eat all winter, we succumb to the siren song of the clam when the mercury rises. Nothing says summertime in New England like a plate of fried clams. The North Shore of Massachusetts is Fried Clam Central, where they serve ’em up crisp and golden, with plump, dangling bellies that are sweetly redolent of the sea.        
    July 6, 2013 - Boston Globe
Quotes

  • Robert J Sawyer in Ottawa Citizen
    I like to say I'm not stinking rich, but I'm somewhat redolent,Sawyer said in a telephone interview from his home in Mississauga.
  • Katharine Jefferts Schori in Episcopal-Life
    All Saints Margaret Street is recognized for its "distinguished Anglo-Catholic tradition," Jefferts Schori said, "and incense-redolent nave adorned with the finest and most up to date craft of the latter 1800s."

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