Word.ws English Dictionary

demie parures

demie parures is the plural of demie parure.

Meaning of demie parure

Noun

demie parure (plural demie parures)

  1. (historical) a set of luxurious costume, of similar design. The effect is usually of a casual nature, with the demie parure consisting of two items but there may be more.
    • She had taken off her velvet robe, and was carelessly wrapped in a white silk night-gown, fastened with violet ribands. It was one she had worn in half-mourning, and had all the coquettish elegance of demie parure.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 250–251

Questions about demie parures

What is demie parures the plural of?
Demie parures is the plural of demie parure.

Words near demie parures in the dictionary

  1. demidistance
  2. demidistances
  3. demidivine
  4. Demidovka
  5. demie parure
  6. demie parures
  7. demies
  8. demiflat
  9. demiflats
  10. demigauntlet
  11. demigauntlets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: demie parures (page history and authors); demie parure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “demie parures.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/demie_parures. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.