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perfumed

adjective C2
  1. Scented, having been given a pleasant smell. · The perfumed pages of the letter contrasted with its doleful writing.
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Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 275 · C1
His colleagues looked at him, and doubtless pitied his prospects, blighted under the perfumed breath of a woman.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 878 · C1
Not at all; why should I?” The countess placed herself before Monte Cristo, still holding in her hand a portion of the perfumed grapes.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 734 · C1
“‘I can, sir,’ said Haydée, drawing from under her veil a satin satchel highly perfumed; ‘for here is the register of my birth, signed by my father and his principal officers, and that of my baptism, my father having consented to my being brought up in my mother’s faith,—this latter has been sealed by the grand primate of Macedonia and Epirus; and lastly (and perhaps the most important), the record of the sale of my person and that of my mother to the Armenian merchant El-Kobbir, by the French officer, who, in his infamous bargain with the Porte, had reserved as his part of the booty the wife and daughter of his benefactor, whom he sold for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.’ A greenish pallor spread over the count’s cheeks, and his eyes became bloodshot at these terrible imputations, which were listened to by the assembly with ominous silence.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 875 · C1

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