camphory

comparative more camphory · superlative most camphory

1. Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.

   Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory.

   1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC

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   "Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."

   1879, Barnet Phillips, Burning Their Ships, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 45

   In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.

   2012 May 24, Sarah Raven, “Wonderful Wisteria”, in The Daily Telegraph