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co·logne (kə lōn)

noun

a perfumed toilet water made of alcohol and aromatic oils; eau de Cologne
Cologne Definition

Co·logne (kə lōn)

city in W Germany, on the Rhine, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 962,000
Ger. name Köln

Etymology: Fr, after L Colonia (Agrippina), the colony (of Agrippina)

cologne Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • wear: They clean up and wear cologne and stop eating or over eat.
  • use: About 96 percent of Spanish women use fragrances, a trend matched by Spanish men, about 85 percent of whom use cologne.

Preposition: for

  • man: Designed in 1986, Obsession cologne for men is a refreshing, oriental, woody fragrance.

Adjective modifier

  • expensive: AFTER TWO squirts of expensive cologne, Limahl is ready to face the day.
  • favorite: I mean, it's not like I will be buying it chocolates or wondering what its favorite cologne is.
  • much: Wearing their ties and perfect hair, smelling like too much cologne.

Modifies a noun

  • range: Pushing the two they never seemed of cologne range.
  • area: Topic: any chance for gig in cologne area?
Cologne Quotes

In Ko«  hln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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