frangipani
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- noun
- /ˌfræn.dʒɪˈpɑː.ni/
:
frangipani
- He assumed that it was from Mrs. Harrison since it smelled of her frangipani.
- frangipani tree
- frangipani flowers
- frangipani blossom
I see colors and I see this weird, this Frangipani scented oil going down these stairs.
- I see colors and I see this weird, this Frangipani scented oil going down these stairs.
Examples
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The night bloomed, deep tropical night I've always loved, as fragrant as the word frangipani, with a breeze the same temperature as flushed skin.
Fiction book (1992) -
Anyhow, I let Jonathon hold my hand on the path beside the frangipani.
Fiction book (1996) -
Did you see the frangipani?
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The breeze was warm with butterflies and smelled like frangipani.
Fiction book (1996) -
Behind her, by the picture window facing an inner courtyard, a Christmas tree, brilliant with thousands of tiny lights, was hung with hibiscus and frangipani blossoms.
Fiction book (1996) -
She had raised her children in a nice neighborhood with frangipani and banyan trees, street games after school, and on Halloween so many trick-or-treaters that they ended up having to give away the hard candy moldering on the piano.
Fiction book (2001) -
She looked around the tiny room with its paper walls, its mats, and the scent of frangipani in the air—she was in Kinabatangan, in her own little house, on her own mattress on the floor, and it was over.
Fiction book (1998) -
She gaped at the sight of young alders and maples, slim white-holed birches, and delicately fronded frangipani.
Fiction book (2001) -
Rose tendrils and dandelions fall over the pathway like tresses, and every ten paces he passes potted frangipani trees whose lavish white flowers periodically distract him.
Fiction book (1998) -
The garden was filled with the sweet scent of frangipani flowers, attracting butterflies and bees.
Synonyms
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A small tropical tree with fragrant white or pink flowers
A small tropical tree with large sweet-smelling flowers and milky sap
A tropical tree with sweet smelling white or pink flowers
A group of tropical trees and bushes with sweet-smelling white or pink flowers
A tall tropical tree with large, sweet-smelling white and yellow flowers
A small tree with sweet-smelling white flowers often grown near temples in India
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Frangipani comes from an Italian family name, Frangipani, whose scented 'perfume' was once used on 'gloves', and people thought the flower smelled the same. So the name came to mean the sweet-smelling tropical tree we call frangipani today.