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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

Well, he actually risked himself in a jeweller's shop, and bought me a very nice smelling-bottle!

Hers was the first smelling-bottle produced; hers was the presence of mind which suggested a horizontal position.

He brought me the smelling-bottle; he put a little stool under my feet; he entreated me to take time enough to compose myself.

Nothing, except perhaps the smelling-bottle, suggested a mistress rather than a master, but the whole effect was feminine.

Close at hand is a little medicine chest, containing numerous medicine phials, a flask of stimulants, and a smelling-bottle.

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