redolence
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛd.ə.ləns/, /ˈɹɛd.əʊ.ləns/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛd.ə.ləns/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɹed.ə.ləns/
Noun[edit]
redolence (countable and uncountable, plural redolences)
- (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.
- (countable) An evocative fragrance.
Translations[edit]
the quality of being redolent
an evocative fragrance
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