Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfumy
Literary usage of Perfumy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"From her soft, perfumy presence to Mrs. Tozer's parlor, with that pervading ¡
consciousness in it of the shop hard by and | its store of provisions, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"... and poured out a glass of wine from a bottle which stood there,—a rich, golden -
coloured, perfumy wine, which sent its scent through the room. ..."
3. Bulletin by University of the State of New York (1902)
"When a bat was disturbed, it gave out " a nice perfumy smell." It is true.
I never knew that; and some people might not consider it as pleasant as the ..."
4. Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills by Rose Terry Cooke (1891)
"... she longed to be back in the handsome, well-ventilated church at Munson, with
the soft rustle of a well-dressed, perfumy congregation about her, ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1842)
"... and rendered cool and perfumy in rose or jasmine scented water. " For my sake,"
said he, "preserve, ..."
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