Synonyms for perfuming
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : noun pur-fyoom, per-fyoom; verb per-fyoom, pur-fyoom |
| Phonetic Transcription : noun ˈpɜr fyum, pərˈfyum; verb pərˈfyum, ˈpɜr fyum |
Définition of perfuming
Origin :- 1530s, "fumes from a burning substance," from Middle French parfum (16c.), from parfumer "to scent," from Old Provençal perfumar or cognate words in dialectal Italian (perfumare) or Spanish (perfumar), from Latin per- "through" (see per) + fumare "to smoke" (see fume (n.)). Meaning "fluid containing agreeable essences of flowers, etc.," is attested from 1540s.
- As in aromatize : verb give aroma
- An oil is distilled from the seeds and used in perfuming soap.
- Extract from : « Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses » by M. G. Kains
- He passed part of it in curling his hair and perfuming himself.
- Extract from : « Original Short Stories of Maupassant, Volume 1 » by Guy de Maupassant
- This queen of the garden loses not its diadem in the perfuming world.
- Extract from : « The Art of Perfumery » by G. W. Septimus Piesse
- It is very largely used for perfuming cheap soaps, and also serves as a source for the production of geraniol.
- Extract from : « The Handbook of Soap Manufacture » by W. H. Simmons
- It is sold as an artificial sassafras oil, and is very much used in perfuming cheap toilet or household soaps.
- Extract from : « The Handbook of Soap Manufacture » by W. H. Simmons
- Oil of sassafras distilled from the bark of the roots is used for perfuming soaps and flavoring medicines.
- Extract from : « Trees Worth Knowing » by Julia Ellen Rogers
- The study of clothes was his chief consideration, he spent hours rouging and perfuming himself.
- Extract from : « Court Beauties of Old Whitehall » by W. R. H. Trowbridge
- Here and there barbers were working over handsome gentlemen—smoothing their faces, perfuming their hair, polishing their nails.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- The perfuming of soaps is an art in itself and a subject to be treated by one versed in this particular branch.
- Extract from : « Soap-Making Manual » by E. G. Thomssen
- Perfuming of soap is closely allied to the soap making industry, but as stated a branch in itself.
- Extract from : « Soap-Making Manual » by E. G. Thomssen
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