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Odor Lucri (Latin)

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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.

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Od
Odd Numbers
Odd and Even
Odd’s or Od’s
Odds
Ode
Odhærir
Odin
Odium Theologicum
ODoherty (Sir Morgan)
Odor Lucri (Latin)
Odorico (in Orlando Furioso)
Odour
Odour of Sanctity (In the)
Odrysium Carmen
Odur
Odyle
Odyssey
Œdipus
Œil
Œil de Bœuf (L)