perfume
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum.
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /ˈpɜːfjuːm/
- (America) pûr'fyo͞om", IPA: /ˈpɝfjuːm/ or enPR: pər-fyoo͞m', IPA: /pɚˈfjuːm/
- (General American):
- (noun) IPA: /ˈpɚfjuːm/
- (verb) IPA: /pɚˈfjuːm/
perfume
- A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗, page 168 ↗:
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (cosmetics) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
- (pleasant smell) aroma, fragrance, scent
- (substance providing a pleasant smell) fragrance, parfum, scent
- French: parfum, fragrance
- German: Duft
- Italian: profumo
- Portuguese: fragrância, perfume, cheiro
- Russian: благоуха́ние
- Spanish: aroma
- French: parfum
- German: Parfüm, Duftstoff, Parfum
- Italian: profumo
- Portuguese: perfume
- Russian: духи́
- Spanish: perfume
perfume (perfumes, present participle perfuming; simple past and past participle perfumed)
- (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
- French: parfumer
- German: parfümieren
- Italian: profumare
- Portuguese: perfumar
- Russian: души́ть
- Spanish: perfumar
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