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How to pronounce redolence in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, sweetness
Type of aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent, smell
Derivation redolent

Examples of redolence

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But it was Midnight Cowboy that summons up the period with the greatest redolence.
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People also might use the redolence to judge whether the person splashed on the expensive stuff.
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The high price was due to its redolence of the author.
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My nose let me experience the unexpected late-summer redolence that a single gardenia blossom produced.
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His black-and-white photography starkly captures the Venetian redolence of intrigue, history and decay.
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It was a short monophonous melody with a delicate Oriental redolence, much like a lullaby or love song.
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The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended in the air until dispersed by the boisterousness of the finale.
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More examples
  • Bouquet: a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
  • (redolent) evocative: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
  • Redolent(p): (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey"
  • (redolent) aromatic: having a strong pleasant odor; "the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford
  • The quality of being redolent; An evocative fragrance
  • (redolent) fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent; having the smell of the article in question; suggestive or reminiscent
  • (redolent) sweet-smelling; fragrant.