redolent

UK /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/ US /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.

2

Having the smell of the article in question.

Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.

His breath is already redolent of whiskey.

3

Suggestive or reminiscent.

But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...

But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.

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