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Definition of Malodours
1. malodour [n] - See also: malodour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malodours
Literary usage of Malodours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Herbert Spencer (1902)
"Slums and their surroundings, where epidemics arose, were commonly characterized
by malodours proceeding from dirt, from refuse-heaps, and from obstructed ..."
2. The Story of Seville by Walter Matthew Gallichan (1903)
"There are malodours here and there, owing to the insanitary practices of the
people; but the inhabitants of these quarters are seldom ragged, ..."
3. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"... and the scum of stagnant marsh (squeezed in the fingers) give forth malodours.
Whenever the olfactory nerves are painfully irritated, ..."
4. Public Health by Society of Community Medicine (Great Britain), Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (Great Britain), Society of Medical Officers of Health, Society of Community Medicine (1899)
"There are the usual complaints of malodours, generally well founded. It is a
remarkable fact that during the very period in which the sanitation of our ..."
5. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"A favourite variety of ludicrous degradation is the contact with filth or pollution,
and the production of malodours; enough to Hypocrisy receives its ..."
6. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1882)
"... reeking of manufactures and their attendant ugliness and malodours, the suburbs
reminding one of the approaches to Liverpool from the south. ..."
7. Journal of a Tour in the United States, Canada and Mexico by Winefred Howard of Glossop (1897)
"The streets, and the whole city, are extraordinarily clean ; and never, there,
or anywhere, do you come across anything like malodours. ..."
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