mothballs
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Growing up, restaurateur Andy Kalish associated two smells with Friday nights: his grandmother's chicken soup and mothballs in his grandfather's closet.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2022
She also took something else out of the mothballs: the maiden name and hyphen that she’d set aside for simplicity’s sake during the race.
From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2022
The September 1974 journal, dog-eared and smelling of pipe smoke and mothballs, included the first published reference to Morgan commissioning the timepiece.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021
Meanwhile, mechanics will take the aircraft that have been grounded nearly two years out of mothballs — making sure all the moving parts are lubricated and functioning correctly.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2020
He even had that old-man smell - mothballs and chicken soup.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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