parfumerie

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See also: Parfümerie

English

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Etymology

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From French parfumerie.

Noun

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parfumerie (plural parfumeries)

  1. Synonym of perfumery (shop selling perfumes).
    • 1980, William Wiser, “Lies”, in Disappearances, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 30:
      The region supplied the parfumeries at Grasse with cultivated blossoms.
    • 1989, Susan Sallis, By Sun and Candlelight, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 136:
      His sheep had gone further up the mountain for the summer, and he was growing crops of flowers for the parfumeries at Grasse.
    • 2010, Kathleen Lockwood, “California Dreaming”, in Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 79:
      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.

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French parfumerie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈparfumɛrɪjɛ]
  • Hyphenation: par‧fu‧me‧rie

Noun

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parfumerie f

  1. perfumery (shop selling perfumes)
    Synonym: voňavkářství

Declension

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Further reading

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  • parfumerie”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • parfumerie”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • parfumerie”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

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Etymology

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From parfum +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /paʁ.fym.ʁi/
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Noun

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parfumerie f (plural parfumeries)

  1. perfumery (shop selling perfumes)
  2. perfumery (perfume products)
  3. perfume industry; the art of perfume

Descendants

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French parfumerie.

Noun

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parfumerie f (plural parfumerii)

  1. perfumery

Declension

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