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perfume

noun
/ˈpɜːfjuːm/UK/ˈpɝfjuːm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.

  1. borrowed from parfum

Definitions

  1. A pleasant smell

    A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

    • Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.

  2. A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

    • She bought a perfume at the airport.
    • The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.

  3. To apply perfume to

    To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

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Derived

acoustic perfume, Arizona perfume, beperfumed, perfume ball, perfumeless, perfumelike, perfumery, perfumey, perfumy, perfumier, unperfumed, perfumed, perfumer

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at perfume. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at perfume. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at perfume

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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