perfume made from an Indian plant of the mint family, 1845, from the native name for the plant in Madras, said to be from Tamil pach "green" + ilai "leaf." The form of the word appears Fr., but this has not been explained and the record of it in Eng. predates that in Fr.
[pach-oo-lee, puh-choo-lee] 
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