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perfumed

Definitions

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  • adjective Scented, having been given a pleasant smell.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of perfume.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a natural fragrance
  • adjective filled or impregnated with perfume

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Examples

  • You will find it difficult to believe perhaps that Monsieur de Ramière, a young man of brilliant intellect, considerable talents and many estimable qualities, accustomed to salon triumphs and to adventures in perfumed boudoirs, had conceived a very durable passion for the housekeeper in the household of a small manufacturer in Brie.

    Indiana 1900

  • His descriptions seemed steeped in odours, and his every phrase perfumed in ottar of roses.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • One fragrance that perhaps tickles the olfactory nerve with more delicacy than all others and might be called a perfumed "dream," comes from baking a garlic pie piping hot in the open, with Turkish Limburger as a substantial ingredient.

    A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel S. G. Bayne

  • Recalls the perfumed sleeves of him who is no longer here.

    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

  • His descriptions seemed steeped in odours, and his every phrase perfumed in ottar of roses.

    The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801

  • The German word "gewürz" translates as "spicy" or "perfumed" -- either of which easily apply to the wine.

    Express Milwaukee 2009

  • The curious question of how exactly were my teas "perfumed" gets brought up often.

    The Mystery Behind "Perfumed Teas" Ayala Sender 2008

  • Earlier in our life here, I also noted some very "perfumed" butter, which I soon was able to differentiate from natural tasting butter when I made my shopping selections.

    Leche 2006

  • The curious question of how exactly were my teas "perfumed" gets brought up often.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Ayala Sender 2008

  • The men having undressed to their loins, and stretched themselves at full length upon the Angareygs, were rubbed by the women with a kind of perfumed grease, much in the same manner as is used after coming out of the bath.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Sonnet 54 warns readers that “The canker blooms have full as deep a dye / As the perfumèd tincture of the roses / Hang on such thorns”, which is just wrong.

    We are horrified to discover that not every rose has a thorn New Scientist 2025

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