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See also: sensen
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proprietary name in the US; apparently an arbitrary creation.
Noun
[edit]- A brand of breath freshener (discontinued in 2013) containing liquorice, often used to disguise the use of alcohol or tobacco.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 92:
- The sen-sen was to let on to the other boys and the pullet-sized girls that he had a liquor breath to cover.
- 1951, Pamela Branch, Lion in the Cellar:
- He was eating sen-sen cachous.