nidor

plural nidors

1. countableuncountableThe smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.

   the material Demons do strangely gluttonize upon the Nidours and Bloud of Sacrifices

   1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea

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   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.

   1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524

   Elsewhere to blood, smoke, and nidor, he opposes purity of thought, sincerity of affection, […]

   1896, Daniel Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist, page 623

   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 […]

   1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

2. countablenonstandarduncountableAny smell.

   The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.

   2008, Edgar Wallace, Devil Man, page 9

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   For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette.

   2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring, page 28