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fe·tor

 (fē′tər, -tôr′) also foe·tor (fē′tər)
n.
A strong, offensive odor. See Synonyms at stench.
[Middle English fetoure, from Latin fētor, from fētēre, to stink.]
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fetor

(ˈfiːtə; -tɔː) or

foetor

n
an offensive stale or putrid odour; stench
[C15: from Latin, from fētēre to stink]
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fe•tor

(ˈfi tər)

n.
an offensive smell; stench.
[1475–1500; (< Middle French) < Latin]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fetor - a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasantfetor - a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
foetor, malodor, malodour, reek, stench, stink, mephitis
odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor - the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"
niff, pong - an unpleasant smell
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fe·tor

n. fetor, mal olor, hedor.
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In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry.
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During the transit, he sat with raised glasses in the frosty chill and mouldy fetor of his chariot, and glanced out sidelong on the holiday face of things, the shuttered shops, and the crowds along the pavement, much as the rider in the Tyburn cart may have observed the concourse gathering to his execution.
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(12) In addition to the chaotic nature of space and time in Ryhope, the gravitation towards grime, sweat, smells, animal filth (for example, in the representation of the primal boar-spirit, the Urscumug, whose "stench of animal sweat and dung was overwhelming" [Mythago Wood 166], or of the process of becoming "bosky" in the woods and indulging in a "miasma" of fetors and odors [The Hollowing 243-51]), necromancy, cannibalism, necrophagy (and the essentially abject practice of bringing up the devoured human carcass in Lavondyss [434]), violent death, and inexplicable phenomena are as evident and frequent in the woods as the faint but menacing occurrence of mythagos; providing a double sense of wonder and abject horror.
Masks in the forest: the dynamics of surface and depth in Robert Holdstock's Mythago cycle

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