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Smell-feast   Listen
noun
Smell-feast  n.  
1.
One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. "The epicure and the smell-feast."
2.
A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.





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"Smell-feast" Quotes from Famous Books



... The smell-feast[547] Afer travels to the Burse Twice every day, the flying news to hear; Which, when he hath no money in his purse, To rich men's tables he doth ever[548] bear. He tells how Groni[n]gen[549] is taken in[550] By the brave conduct of ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe


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