2012_03_12 Moschate adj. 有麝香味

Word of the Day for Thursday, March 22, 2012
moschate \MOS-keyt\, adjective:
Having a musky smell.
Her familiar perfume and moschate odor was overwhelming within the confines of the car, especially with the windows rolled up.
 -- Charles Ray Willeford, New Hope for the Dead
The plant of the Rio Grande is said by Mr. Schott to exhale a moschate odor.
 -- William Hemsley Emory, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Volume 2, Part 1
Though moschate has Latin roots, it was not used widely in English until the early 1800s. The word mosch meant "musky" in Latin and was used to describe the wine commonly known today at "muscat."
有麝香味。

她熟悉的香水和moschate的氣味，絕大多數汽車的範圍內，尤其是與Windows捲起。
- 查爾斯·雷Willeford，為死者的新希望

格蘭德河的工廠是肖特先生所說的到吐出moschate氣味。
- 威廉Hemsley埃默里，美國和墨西哥邊界調查報告，第2卷，第1部分

雖然moschate有拉丁詞根，它不使用中英文廣泛，直到19世紀初。字mosch意味著在拉美的“麝香”，被用來描述在今天通常被稱為“麝香葡萄酒。”

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