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Definition of 'nidor'

English

Noun

(nidor)
  • The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.
  • * 1743 , Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity , edition 3 (London), page 524:
    • The First-fruits'' were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in ''sacrificiing'' Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the ''Smoke'', and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with ''human Sacrifices.
  • * 1896 , Daniel Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist , page 623:
    • Elsewhere to blood, smoke, and nidor , he opposes purity of thought, sincerity of affection,
  • * 1997 , Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon :
    • The smell, at some times of year sensible for Miles, of Sheep, and wool-fat, and that queasy Nidor of Lambs baking in ovens meant for bread
  • (nonstandard) Any smell.
  • * 2007 , Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring , page 28:
    • For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette.
  • * 2008 , Edgar Wallace, Devil Man , page 9:
    • The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.
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    Similar to 'nidor'

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