perfumer
English
Etymology
From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈfjuːmə/, /ˈpəːfjʊmə/
Noun
perfumer (plural perfumers)
- 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.
- One who perfumes something.
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Translations
person who makes or sells perfume
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References
- “perfumer, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2005.
Anagrams
Catalan
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Further reading
- “perfumer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “perfumer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “perfumer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “perfumer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Middle French
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