perfume

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From Middle French parfum, from the obsolete Italian parfumare "to smoke through"

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  • (RP) IPA: /ˈpɜːfjuːm/, /"p3:fju:m/
  • (US) pûr'fyo͞om", IPA: /ˈpɝfjuːm/, /"p3`fju:m/ or pər-fyoo͞m', /pɚˈfjuːm/, /p@`"fju:m/
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[edit] Noun

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  1. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
  2. A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

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perfume (third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)

  1. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

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perfume m. (plural perfumes)

  1. perfume

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perfume (infinitive perfumar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of perfumar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
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