Both Uses
redolent
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)
- There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms up-stairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor-cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.
p. 148.9redolent = bringing to mind
- For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.
p. 151.2 *redolent = brought to mind
Definitions:
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(1)
(redolent) reminiscent (serving to bring to mind)
or:
or smelling like something; or having a sweet fragrance - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)