Noun: parfum
| Singular | parfum |
| Plural | parfums |
Sample Sentences
-
Did you ever dream of a Beauty Shop De Luxe? A charming place of sweet parfums, crystal mirrors, flowered chintzes and soft pastel tints—a lovely salon of beauty, where fresh colors and smart furniture make beauty rites an occasion of pleasure and inspiration? [1926, The Magazine of The Women’s City Club of Detroit, page 42:]
-
For Christmas, give a jewel-like flacon of this most exclusive and personal of parfums. [1930, The New Yorker, volume 6, page 111:]
-
WANTED 10 top flight salesmen in different sections to introduce fine line of parfums made expressly to sell in jewelry stores, also lighters and other exclusive imports. [1944 April, Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone, page 232:]
Nouns inflected like parfum
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French parfum. Doublet of perfume. See: French Nouns '
parfum'.