smelling bottle

English

Noun

smelling bottle (plural smelling bottles)

  1. A bottle for smelling salts.
    • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
      [A]ll the spectators could easily perceive her perturbation, which manifested itself in frequent palpitations, heart-heavings, and alterations of countenance, in spite of the assistance of a smelling-bottle which she incessantly applied to her nostrils.
    • 1787, Jane Austen, ‘Frederic and Elfrida’, Juvenilia:
      ‘Consent then Madam to their union and as a reward, this smelling Bottle which I enclose in my right hand, shall be yours and yours forever; I never will claim it again.’
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