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Toilet water
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eau de cologne
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol [syn: cologne , cologne water ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eau de Cologne (; German: Kölnisch Wasser ; lit. “Water of Cologne”), or simply cologne , is a perfume originating from Cologne , Germany . Originally mixed by Italian-born Johann Maria Farina in 1709, it has since come to be a generic term for scented ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She was a neat little blonde, five years my senior, and perpetually smelling of eau de cologne and cheap powder. ▪ The combined smell of garlic and eau de cologne was terrible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cologne \Co*logne"\, n. [Originally made in Cologne, the French name of K["o]ln, a city in Germany.] A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. cologne (gloss: type of perfume)
Usage examples of eau de cologne.
Reaching this gallery, anyway, he smelled eau de cologne, and placed his left hand on the scabbard of his rapier (a style of weapon that had gone out of fashion, but it was the one his father, Antoine Rossignol, the King’.
His plump white neck stood out sharply above the black collar of his uniform, and he smelled of Eau de Cologne.
Only the other day a learned Dutchman reproached me for having sprinkled eau de Cologne in the forepeak of HMS Shannon in my last book: the earliest English reference to eau de Cologne, said he, quoting the Oxford Dictionary, is in a letter of Byron's dated 1830.
I believe he was mistaken in assuming that no Englishman ever spoke of eau de Cologne before that time.
Kugler, sardines from Miep, eau de cologne from us, lilacs, tulips and, last but not least, a cake with raspberry filling, slightly gluey because of the poor quality of the flour and the lack of butter, but deli- cious anyway.