camphory
English
Etymology
Adjective
camphory (comparative more camphory, superlative most camphory)
- Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
- 1879, Barnet Phillips, Burning Their Ships, New York: Harper & Brothers, Chapter, page 45, [1]
- "Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Sunday," [2]
- Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory.
- 2012, Sarah Raven, "Wonderful Wisteria" in The Daily Telegraph, 24 May, 2012, [3]
- In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.
- 1879, Barnet Phillips, Burning Their Ships, New York: Harper & Brothers, Chapter, page 45, [1]