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English
Etymology
From camphor + -y.
Adjective
camphory (comparative more camphory, superlative most camphory)
- Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
1879, Barnet Phillips, Burning Their Ships, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 45:"Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."
1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory.
2012 May 24, Sarah Raven, “Wonderful Wisteria”, in The Daily Telegraph:In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.