camphory

camphory

English

Etymology

From camphor +‎ -y.

Adjective

camphory (comparative more camphory, superlative most camphory)

1. Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
   • 1879, Barnet Phillips, Burning Their Ships, New York: Harper & Brothers, Chapter, page 45,

     "Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small:

     Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory.

   • 2012, Sarah Raven, "Wonderful Wisteria" in The Daily Telegraph, 24 May, 2012,

     In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.