cordite• Wesson eliminating the smell of cordite from their. 45s in favor of amaretto potpourri.• Donna crouched where she was, the Beretta held close to her, the stink of cordite strong in her nostrils.• Was that acrid stink cordite, or just the stink of fearpouring off him?• The suppressed sound of the gunfire was still in his ears, and the sweetcordite smell hung at his nostrils.• But I think he's got his own little superstition about the cordite.• Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with.• His instantemotion was the actor-manager's: theatricalcordite, writer fire.• Uncontained, cordite makes a very good firelighter.