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名詞

scent-bottle (複数形 scent-bottles)

1. A small elegant bottle containing perfume.
   • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 3, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, OCLC 19736994; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, OCLC 258624721:

     She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093:

     There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses.