Cassolette

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes. countable

    "Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]"

  2. 2
    The natural scent of a woman. countable, uncountable

    "“Don't you like the word cassolette, Julian?” He supposed Thayer thought she was being clever. Cassolette was also a reference to the natural fragrance of a woman."

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"Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]"

Etymology

From French cassolette, from Spanish cazoleta (“pan”).

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