What does scent-bottle mean?

scent-bottle

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

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"She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy"
"There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses."

scent-bottles (plural) scent bottle (alternative)

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