parfumerie

From French parfumerie.

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.

Borrowed from French parfumerie.

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

parfumerie f

1. perfumery (shop selling perfumes)

   Synonym: voňavkářství

• “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), 2008–2025

From parfum +‎ -erie.

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.fym.ʁi/

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parfumerie f (plural parfumeries)

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

• → Czech: parfumerie
• → German: Parfümerie
• → Romanian: parfumerie
• → Turkish: parfümeri
• → Russian: парфюмерия (parfjumerija)

• “parfumerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French parfumerie.

parfumerie f (plural parfumerii)

1. perfumery