fragrance
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s//
- //ˈfɹæ.ɡɹəns//
A pleasant smell or odour.
noun
- 1
A pleasant smell or odour.
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
- 2
A perfume.
Today, sales of women's fragrances are double those of men's, and 80 percent of all men's after-shaves and colognes are in fact bought by women, as gifts.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- Latin fragrō Latin fragrāns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantiabor. French fragrancebor. English fragrance Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.
verb
- 1
To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.
Forms
- plural
- fragrances
- past tense
- fragranced
- past participle
- fragranced
- present participle
- fragrancing
- third person singular
- fragrances