Perfumer
//pəˈfjuːmə// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who makes or sells perfume.
"Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood."
- 2 a person who makes (and sells) perfumes wordnet
- 3 One who perfumes something.
Example
More examples"The perfumer stroked his wiry, red-tinged beard."
Etymology
From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.
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