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Topic: ODOURS

Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: foetidus, from foetere 'to smell bad'

fetid

 adjective
     
fet‧id formal
CO having a strong bad smell [= stinking]:
the black fetid water of the lake
the dog's fetid breath
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