scent
noun
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable.
outscent
-
a word derived from
scent.
Example Sentences
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“This he did,” says Fuller, “to qualify the infamy of Garnet’s death, and that the perfume of this new title might outscent the stench of his treason.”
From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Thomas Lathbury
