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What is the meaning of 'in the note'?
This term comes from perfuming. A note is part of a scent. These can be analyzed in terms of when they are smelled, but in this context, it means only that she can smell "flora of Lyng" in ...
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What is the meaning of 'in the note'?
It's not an easy sentence to decode, but I suspect the answer lies in this definition of "note" from the Cambridge dictionary:
an emotion or a way of expressing something:
-There was a note ...
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Why does the Devil "glower" at Benedict Arnold's absence in "The Devil and Daniel Webster"?
Disclaimer: I haven't read the book, I'm basing this only on the content in the question.
The way I read it, the Devil is not glowering at Arnold's absence. Instead, what I see is the Devil making a ...
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"The fat, sunny ring of the world's casually afternooned" in Stanley Elkin's "I Look Out for Ed Wolfe"
The adjective “afternooned” comes from a verb “to afternoon”, which, although it is not recorded in dictionaries, means “to spend the afternoon”, as in this passage from a 1984 fantasy novel:
Dana ...
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What is the meaning of 'in the note'?
Mary is expecting an engineer who will look at the pipework in the greenhouse, and refers to that person as "an authority from Dorchester":
There was something wrong about the piping of the ...
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