Of literary work, in the phrases to smell of the candle, lamp, oil, etc., to show signs of being laboured and artificial.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic (5) to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542 Of literary work, in the phrases to smell of the candle, lamp, oil, etc., to show signs of being laboured and artificial. to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579 (Said of a literary composition). to smell of (or †taste) the lamp: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study. to smell of the inkhorn1587 A small portable vessel (originally made of a horn) for holding writing-ink: now seldom used. †to smell of the inkhorn, to be pedantic; term of in… to smell of oil1646 Oil used in a lamp for (esp. nocturnal) study; (hence, allusively) laborious study. Now only in midnight oil n. at midnight, n. adj.compounds 2. Subcategories:— Latinize (1) |
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