Against the Day, 545:
She pressed his hand and was gone in a mist of vetiver, abruptly as the other evening.
1. the long, fibrous, aromatic roots of an East Indian grass, Vetiveria zizanioides, used for making hangings and screens and yielding an oil used in perfumery.
2. Also called khus-khus. the grass itself.
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