olfactory
adjective
of or relating to the sense of smell.
olfactories
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pluralof olfactory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench. My olfactories are already beginning to send out distress signals.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Any person of sensitive olfactories would have halted in the doorway; but I elbowed through the woolly gathering, and followed Frank and Selma to the family pew.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
According to his own account, no nosegay was ever more fragrant to his olfactories than was the smell of fresh fish in the frying pan.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
The whole process of rendering menhaden into oil is less offensive to the olfactories than might be supposed.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
I recall now one of those midnight forays of which, at the risk of my reader's olfactories, I will give a brief glimpse.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
