inodorous

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English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ odorous.

Adjective

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inodorous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Odourless.
    • 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
      "At Venice, please, if possible, no dreadful, no vulgar hotel; but, if it can be at all managed—you know what I mean—some fine old rooms, wholly independent, for a series of months. Plenty of them, too, and the more interesting the better: part of a palace, historic and picturesque, but strictly inodorous, where we shall be to ourselves, with a cook, don't you know?—with servants, frescoes, tapestries, antiquities, the thorough make-believe of a settlement."