perfume

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A liquid with a pleasant smell that people put on their skin.

   She bought a bottle of perfume at the airport.

2. 2
   noun

   A pleasant smell.

   The perfume of the roses filled the whole garden.

3. 3
   verb

   To give something a pleasant smell.

   Orange blossoms perfumed the warm evening air.

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.

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