Henri Dunoyer, mayor of the post resort town of La Grand-Motte in Southern France, has ordered police to stop people leaving the beach in swimwear for an odor check. (Brickbats).
Henri Dunoyer, mayor of the post resort town of La Grand-Motte in southern France Southern France (or the South of France), colloquially known as Le Midi, is a loosely defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, and Switzerland south of the , has ordered police to stop people leaving the beach in swimwear for an odor odor (o´der) a volatile emanation perceived by the sense of smell.
o·dor
n.
1. The property or quality of a thing that affects, stimulates, or is perceived by the sense of smell. check. Anyone found to be too smelly smell·y
adj. smell·i·er, smell·i·est Informal
Having a noticeable, usually unpleasant or offensive odor.
smelly
Adjective
[smellier, smelliest will be ordered to cover up or pay a fine. He says he's tired of foul-smelling foreign tourists.
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