smelling bottle

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of smelling bottle

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

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smelling bottle

The trouble is with the sort of perfumery he uses when he gets excited, just as some people use a smelling bottle, and nobody seems to like the sort Mr. Polecat uses except himself.

From The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book being a new edition in one volume of "The Hollow Tree" and "In The Deep Woods" with several new stories and pictures added by Albert Bigelow Paine

She held in her hand a smelling bottle with a powerful perfume that Beatrice had never smelt before.

From The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

I met him this morning walking with the step of a philosopher, a smelling bottle in his hand and all his vivacity extinguished.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

Here little Pet exhibited signs of faintness, which good Mrs. Crull stopped by an instant application of the smelling bottle.

From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton

"I am afraid the heat of the room is too much for you; will you try my smelling bottle?"

From The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins