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Sachet   /sæʃˈeɪ/   Listen
Sachet

noun
1.
A small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest.






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"Sachet" Quotes from Famous Books



... trifles which came from Corydon's trunk, and which whispered of the intimacies of her life; the pictures she put upon her bureau, the sachet-bags that went into the drawer, the clothing she hung behind the door. It disturbed him strangely to realize how close she was to be to ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

... shook her head. "Oh, no! A pleasantly vivid dream of changed and restful things. That's all. Your waking will be only a sentimental and perfumed regret—a sachet-powder sorrow." ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... 'em are natural sluice troughs and can carry out $1,000 to the ton. The dry-eyed ones have to depend on signed letters, false hair, sympathy, the kangaroo walk, cowhide whips, ability to cook, sentimental juries, conversational powers, silk underskirts, ancestry, rouge, anonymous letters, violet sachet powders, witnesses, revolvers, pneumatic forms, carbolic acid, moonlight, cold cream and ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... flowers of all kinds, are largely used in producing sensations and images, to be registered in the brain areas of the sense of smell. The essence of odors which cannot be gotten from flowers, are used to saturate small sachet bags, of charming color and artistic design. These bags make attractive play-things for the children. While using them they soon, unconsciously, become very skillful in detecting the slightest differences between the various odors. Brain areas ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... rather pride myself on my perfumes," replied Latham, graciously. "Now here's a sachet powder ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne



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