perfumeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɜːfjuːm/
• (米国発音) pûr'fyo͞om", IPA: /ˈpɝfjuːm/ or enPR: pər-fyoo͞m', IPA: /pɚˈfjuːm/
• (General American):

• IPA: (noun) /ˈpɚfjuːm/
• IPA: (verb) /pɚˈfjuːm/

• 韻: (米国発音, General American) -uːm

名詞

perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)

1. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

   Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, scent

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168:

     Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.

2. (perfumery) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

   Synonyms: fragrance, parfum, scent

   She bought a perfume at the airport.

   • 1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic‎, →ISSN:

     The market for prestige perfumes is pretty much restricted to what industry economists call “gotrocks ladies”—women in households with annual incomes over $40,000 and who are over forty but still young enough to have a sense of smell (Elizabeth Taylor, for instance).

   • 2014 March 7, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 190, number 13, page 30:

     The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.

派生語

関連する語

• parfumerie
• parfumier

動詞

perfume (third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)

1. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

派生語

• perfumed
• perfumer

参照

• “perfume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.