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parfumerie

noun

Etymology

From French parfumerie.

  1. borrowed from parfumerie

Definitions

  1. Synonym of perfumery (“shop selling perfumes”).

    • The region supplied the parfumeries at Grasse with cultivated blossoms.
    • His sheep had gone further up the mountain for the summer, and he was growing crops of flowers for the parfumeries at Grasse.
    • We literally “took time to smell the roses” as the scents of the mountainside foliage far exceeded anything we had sampled in the parfumeries of Paris.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA