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1 a liquid, often made from flowers, that you put on your skin to make yourself smell nice:
a bottle of expensive perfume * We stock a wide range of perfumes. * the perfume counter of the store * There was strong smell of cheap perfume in the car.
2 a pleasant, often sweet, smell:
the sweet / heady perfume of the roses
verb [VN] [oftenpassive] ~ sth (with sth)
1 (literary) (especially of flowers) to make the air in a place smell pleasant:
The garden was perfumed with the smell of roses. * One bloom has the power to perfume a whole room.
2 to put perfume in or on sth:
She perfumed her bath with fragrant oils.
perfumed adjective:
perfumed soap / paper / candles
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for perfume is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is perfume a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, perfume is tagged as noun.
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