scent-bottle
English
Alternative forms
- scent bottle
Noun
scent-bottle (plural scent-bottles)
- A small elegant bottle containing perfume.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 3
- She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House Chapter XII
- 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.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 3
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