odycolone

English edit

odycolone (uncountable)

Eye dialect spelling of eau de Cologne.
- 1891, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Hildegarde's Holiday, page 270:
  "All the Fifth Avenue folks had fountain attachments put on to their carriages, and sprinkled themselves with iced lavender water and odycolone as they drove along; and the bronze statue in Union Square melted and ran all over the lot."
- 17 August 1855, The Sydney Morning Herald, "TO MISTHER SHAKY HACKETT, OF THE CITY OF WATERFORD, IRELAND", page 2
  ...specially Frinch-min, in their way o' handlin' the poorest patients, shprinklin' 'em wid odycolone, an sich like smellable ristoratives...