unguent

Example Sentences

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Likewise, “sefet” is thought to refer to a sacred oil, but three vessels with that label contained animal fats combined with plant additives, suggesting it could be a scented unguent instead.

From Washington Post

Other results have been ascribed by the disappointed parties to grooming products – unguents, pomades and so on.

From The Guardian

“It would be irrational to assume that unguent cones did not have a scent or that their function wasn’t to perfume its wearer,” she said.

From New York Times

But the discovery also potentially undermines another leading hypothesis about the cones: that they were perfumed lumps of unguent that slowly melted in the sun to perfume and cleanse the body, both literally and spiritually.

From Science Magazine

It’s the opposite of an unguent for what ails the world today.

From The New Yorker