perfume
/ˈpɝfjuːm/ verb C2- To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
He/she/it perfumes · Past perfumed · Past participle perfumed · -ing form perfuming
Verb forms
- Base form
- perfume
- He/she/it
- perfumes
- Past
- perfumed
- Past participle
- perfumed
- -ing form
- perfuming
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A little gypsy wind came down it to meet them, laden with the spicy perfume of young dew-wet ferns.
Birds sang around Green Gables; the Madonna lilies in the garden sent out whiffs of perfume that entered in on viewless winds at every door and window, and wandered through halls and rooms like spirits of benediction.
Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:
Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance.
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