fragrance

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Latin fragrantia. See fragrant.

• enPR: frāʹ-grəns, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪɡɹəns/

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fragrance (countable and uncountable, plural fragrances)

1. A pleasant smell or odour.
   • 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:

     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2. A perfume.

• (pleasant smell): aroma

fragrance (third-person singular simple present fragrances, present participle fragrancing, simple past and past participle fragranced)

1. (transitive) To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantia, from fragrō, fragrāre. Related to flairer, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /fʁa.ɡʁɑ̃s/

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fragrance f (plural fragrances)

1. a fragrance, a pleasurable smell

• “fragrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.