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perfumeries

perfumeries is the plural of perfumery.

Meaning of perfumery

Noun

perfumery (countable and uncountable, plural perfumeries)

  1. (countable) A shop selling perfumes.
    • These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162
    Synonyms:
    parfumerie
  2. (countable) A factory where perfume is made.
  3. (uncountable) The manufacture of perfume.

Questions about perfumeries

What is perfumeries the plural of?
Perfumeries is the plural of perfumery.

Words near perfumeries in the dictionary

  1. perfumeless
  2. perfumelike
  3. perfumer
  4. perfumeress
  5. perfumeresses
  6. perfumeries
  7. perfumers
  8. perfumery
  9. perfumes
  10. perfumey
  11. perfumier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perfumeries (page history and authors); perfumery (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.

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