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patchouli
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patchouli \Pa*tchou"li\, Patchouly \Pa*tchou"ly\, n. [CF. F. patchouli; prob. of East Indian origin.]
(Bot.) A mintlike plant ( Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.
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The perfume made from this plant.
Patchouly camphor (Chem.), a substance homologous with and resembling borneol, found in patchouly oil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perfume made from an Indian plant of the mint family, 1845, from the native name for the plant in Madras, said to be from Tamil pachchai "green" + ilai "leaf." The form of the word appears French, but this has not been explained and the record of it in English predates that in French.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several East Indian plants in the genus (taxlink Pogostemon genus noshow=1), especially (taxlink Pogostemon cablin species noshow=1), which yield a highly fragrant oil. 2 The oil or perfume made from these plants.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth) is a species of plant from the genus Pogostemon. It is a bushy herb of the mint family, with erect stems, reaching two or three feet (about 0.75 metre) in height and bearing small, pale pink-white flowers. The plant is native to tropical regions of Asia, and is now extensively cultivated in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Maldives, Malaysia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South America and the Caribbean.
Usage examples of "patchouli".
Coincidence had nothing to do with the cloying scent of patchouli permeating the drawing room last night or the funeral home today.
Truthfully, she was worried sick over seeing the specter and smelling the patchouli for several valid reasons, the major one being she might be losing her own grip on reality.
He smiled in sleepy pleasure as he smelled the scent of turpentine and patchouli on his skin.
Sunshine had placed a small cosmetics bag, a pink hairbrush, and a small bottle that probably contained her patchouli oil.
He fisted his hand in her hair, inhaled her warm patchouli scent, and just reveled in the peace he felt while holding her.
The scent of patchouli obscured his human musk and made Yozerf want to sneeze.
He smelled of patchouli and the delicate soap used to wash his velvet clothing.
His velvet doublet was crushed against her face, the smell of patchouli overwhelming the stinks of smoke and sweat in the air.
The air smelled heavily of patchouli, but the odor was underlain with the reek of bitter incense, too faint for human senses.
It was for him that she filed her nails with the care of a chaser, and that there was never enough cold-cream for her skin, nor of patchouli for her handkerchiefs.
Those California goddamned clowns, both smelling of patchouli oil, and cheap sweet wine, and an angry festering vindictiveness.
He wore his sixties sensibilities like too much patchouli, but better that than the old fascists who ran the place back in our day.
The air of the place was a marvelous melange of the smell of old but clean clothes, cleaning-fluid, phantom scents, patchouli potpourri, joss-sticks permanently burning, and the occasional cigarette surreptitiously smoked by the girl at the till.
In the kitchen are bottles of 80-proof vodka to make the translucent rose geranium and brown sugar soap and the patchouli soap, and I steal a bottle of vodka and spend my personal burial money on cigarettes.
Oppressed by the cloy of patchouli on his skin from the smothering admiration of several trade ministers' wives, Lysaer waved off the servant, Who moved to close the dagged velvet curtains.