perfumer

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English

Etymology

From perfume (noun and verb) +‎ -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈfjuːmə/, /ˈpəːfjʊmə/
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Noun

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

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From perfum +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera)

  1. perfumer

Further reading

Middle French

Verb

perfumer

  1. Alternative form of parfumer
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