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effluvium
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synonyms: miasma, hogo, colluvies, pong, mephitis ???
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Definition:the stinky fumes given off by decomposing organic matter, as from a dumpster
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these uncertain, wavering ones are caused by some effluvium not in the comet itself, but in the region beyond it. I am compelled to pronounce it tobacco smoke.
Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams .
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while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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9. These Signs are either upon the Surface of the Earth, or beneath it. To the former belong these Quæries. 10. Whether the Ground be made barren by Metalline or Mineral Effluviums?
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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