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smelling bottle

noun

  1. a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of smelling bottle1

First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences

A small modern engraving of Death presenting a smelling bottle to a fainting butcher with one hand, and with the other fanning him.

Aunt Sallie settled herself resignedly into her violet cushions, holding her smelling bottle to her nose.

I met him this morning walking with the step of a philosopher, a smelling bottle in his hand and all his vivacity extinguished.

The trouble is with the sort of perfumery he uses when he gets excited, just as some people use a smelling bottle, and nobody seems to like the sort Mr. Polecat uses except himself.

Reach me some bread and milk for the parrot,—fetch my smelling bottle,—go to the saloon for that book I was reading,—and search again for the pocket-handkerchief I mislaid.

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