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

Sometimes terror, sometimes tears, would choke her voice; but the cheering words and the smelling bottle of Mrs. Crull invariably "brought her round in no time," in the words of that estimable lady.

From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton

"I am not ill, thank you," said Lady Augusta, taking the smelling bottle.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Maria Edgeworth

"Komatsu," she said aloud, "I believe he has fainted from fright," She put the smelling bottle to the baby's funny snub nose.

From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Katherine Stokes

A small modern engraving of Death presenting a smelling bottle to a fainting butcher with one hand, and with the other fanning him.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce