parfumerie

See also: Parfümerie

English

Etymology

From French parfumerie.

Noun

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.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French parfumerie.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

parfumerie f

1. perfumery (shop selling perfumes)

   Synonym: voňavkářství

Declension

Declension of parfumerie (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	parfumerie	parfumerie
genitive	parfumerie	parfumerií
dative	parfumerii	parfumeriím
accusative	parfumerii	parfumerie
vocative	parfumerie	parfumerie
locative	parfumerii	parfumeriích
instrumental	parfumerií	parfumeriemi

Related terms

• parfém
• parfumér

 

Further reading

• “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)

French

Etymology

From parfum +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.fym.ʁi/

• Audio:

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Noun

parfumerie f (plural parfumeries)

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French parfumerie.

Noun

parfumerie f (plural parfumerii)

1. perfumery

Declension

Declension of parfumerie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) parfumerie	parfumeria	(niște) parfumerii	parfumeriile
genitive/dative	(unei) parfumerii	parfumeriei	(unor) parfumerii	parfumeriilor
vocative	parfumerie, parfumerio		parfumeriilor