The sweets of gain; the delights of money-making.
“Every act of such a person is seasoned with the odor lucri.”—Sir Walter Scott: The Betrothed (Introduction).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.