smelling bottle

noun

1. a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.

Word History and Origins

Origin of smelling bottle¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

Well, he actually risked himself in a jeweller's shop, and bought me a very nice smelling-bottle!

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Hers was the first smelling-bottle produced; hers was the presence of mind which suggested a horizontal position.

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He brought me the smelling-bottle; he put a little stool under my feet; he entreated me to take time enough to compose myself.

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Nothing, except perhaps the smelling-bottle, suggested a mistress rather than a master, but the whole effect was feminine.

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Close at hand is a little medicine chest, containing numerous medicine phials, a flask of stimulants, and a smelling-bottle.

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