Redolent Meaning

(idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.

Example: Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
Having the smell of the article in question.
1861, Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. 32:
  His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16:
  Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision:
  But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:
  He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

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