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Perfume   /pərfjˈum/   Listen
noun
Perfume  n.  
1.
The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma. "No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field."
2.
A substance that emits an agreeable odor. "And thou shalt make it a perfume."


verb
Perfume  v. t.  (past & past part. perfumed; pres. part. perfuming)  To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. "And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies."





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"Perfume" Quotes from Famous Books



... the walls of the basins and then shovel it up on the dikes and heap it into creamy cones that sparkle in the sunshine. The dikes are narrow, raised pathways beside the basins and between them. As you walk along on top of them, you can smell a faint violet perfume from the salt. Thatch is put over the cones to protect them from the rain, and there they stand till some of the impurities drain away. This salt is not perfectly white, because the workmen cannot help scraping up a little of the gray or reddish clay with it. Most of it ...
— Diggers in the Earth • Eva March Tappan
... at this time a woman of some forty-three years, with delicate and mild features, a countenance overflowing with kindness, and whose whole being exhaled, as it were, an exquisite perfume of noblesse and distinction. ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau
... scarlet leaves, and folding itself later in snow and winter sleep—this world she knew as well as she knew herself. The birds were singing and nest-building this morning, and, as she hung over a bed of purple and white hyacinths, kneeling on the grass and getting as close to them as she could, their perfume mounted to her brain and she ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... fascinating. The transition from the cloister-like seclusion of his seminary life to this suburb of the gay world was almost bewildering; and Lottie Marsden was one to stir the thin blood and withered heart of the coldest anchorite. The faint perfume which she seemed to exhale like a red rosebush in June was a pleasing exchange for the rather musty and scholastic atmosphere in which he so long had dwelt. As she glanced by as lightly as a bird on the ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe
... There's perfume upon every wind, Music in every tree, Dews for the moisture-loving flowers, Sweets for the sucking-bee. ...
— A Bird Calendar for Northern India • Douglas Dewar


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