patchouli

• patchouly, pachouli

Borrowed from Tamil பச்சுளி (paccuḷi).

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡ʃuli/

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patchouli (countable and uncountable, plural patchoulis)

1. Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.
2. The oil or perfume made from these plants.
   • 1976, Peter Wood, Al Stewart, “Year of the Cat”, in Year of the Cat:

     Well she looks at you so coolly / And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea / She comes in incense and patchouli

• patchouli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /pat.ʃu.li/

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patchouli m (uncountable)

1. patchouli (plant)
2. patchouli (oil)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     C'était pour lui qu'elle se limait les ongles avec un soin de ciseleur, et qu'il n'y avait jamais assez de cold-cream sur sa peau, ni de patchouli dans ses mouchoirs.

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

patchouli m (plural patchoulis)

1. alternative spelling of patchuli