girlsmell

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compound of girl +‎ smell.

Noun[edit]

girlsmell (countable and uncountable, plural girlsmells)

  1. The scent of a girl or woman.
    • 1974, Ralph Berton, Remembering Bix: A Memoir of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y. []: Harper & Row, Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:
      I smelled Judy's ineffable girlsmell as she stood near me, alcohol and perfume and something indefinable, female; I breathed in life, and life throbbed quietly in my veins, powerful and precious, overwhelming me with new meaning and perspective.

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