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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/

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.

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References

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

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From perfum +‎ -er.

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Noun

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perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera)

  1. perfumer
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Middle French

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Verb

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perfumer

  1. Alternative form of parfumer