Meaning & use
nidor
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A strong smell, especially the smell of cooked or burning meat or fat.
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The nidor of roasting lamb drifted through the entire street.
A faint nidor of scorched fat lingered in the kitchen long after the pan was cleaned.
A note on using this word
A rare, mostly literary word borrowed from Latin "nidor"; it survives today chiefly in older or highly formal writing.
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