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cologne water

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co⋅logne

[kuh-lohn]
–noun
a mildly perfumed toilet water; eau de Cologne.
Also called Cologne water.


Origin:
short for Cologne water, made in Cologne since 1709


co⋅logned, adjective
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Cologne

City in western Germany on the Rhine River; a commercial center.

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cologne 
1814, Cologne water, loan-transl. of Fr. eau de Cologne, lit. "water from Cologne," from the city in Germany (Ger. Köln, from L. Colonia Agrippina) where it was made, first by It. chemist Johann Maria Farina, who had settled there in 1709.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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