Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

parfumerie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: par-fumerie
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of perfumery (“shop selling perfumes”).

Example Sentences

"The region supplied the parfumeries at Grasse with cultivated blossoms."
"His sheep had gone further up the mountain for the summer, and he was growing crops of flowers for the parfumeries at Grasse."
"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."

Etymology

From French parfumerie.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: parfumerie

Inflected Forms

parfumeries (plural)

Synonyms

perfumery

Questions

What does parfumerie mean?: Synonym of perfumery (“shop selling perfumes”).
Where does parfumerie come from?: It is traced to French.

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