Meanings
plural parfumeries
- Synonym of perfumery (“shop selling perfumes”).
The region supplied the parfumeries at Grasse with cultivated blossoms.
1980, William Wiser, “Lies”, in Disappearances, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 302 more examples
His sheep had gone further up the mountain for the summer, and he was growing crops of flowers for the parfumeries at Grasse.
1989, Susan Sallis, By Sun and Candlelight, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 136We 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.
2010, Kathleen Lockwood, “California Dreaming”, in Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 79Synonyms: perfumery
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of perfumery (“shop selling perfumes”).
Origin
- Frenchparfumerie
- Englishparfumerie
From French parfumerie.
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