parure
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French pareure, parure. See French parure below.
Pronunciation
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Noun
parure (plural parures)
- A set of jewellery to be worn together.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in Who Stole the Black Diamonds ?[1]:
- “… among the objects stolen was the famous parure of Black Diamonds, for which a bid of half a million sterling had just been made and accepted. […]”
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001, p. 202)
- Why, then, was she not in Bond Street, as advertised, scribbling her signature on Travellers' Cheques and scooping up emerald parures and things?
Anagrams
French
Etymology
First attested in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from parer + -ure.
Pronunciation
Noun
parure f (plural parures)
Further reading
- “parure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Noun
parure f (uncountable)
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