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perfumer

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English

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Etymology

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From perfume (noun and verb) +‎ -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈfjuːmə/, /ˈpəːfjʊmə/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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perfumer (plural perfumers)

  1. A person who makes or sells perfume.
    • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
      Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.
  2. One who perfumes something.

Synonyms

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ perfumer, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2005.

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From perfum +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera)

  1. perfumer
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Further reading

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Middle French

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Verb

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perfumer

  1. Alternative form of parfumer