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  • verb Present participle of perfume.

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Examples

  • How precisely their ministry, in perfuming the prayers of the saints and offering them on the altar of incense, is exercised, we know not, but we do know they are not to be prayed TO.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Some categories of appearance may be more contested, such as perfuming (Berakhot 43b; Satlow, 13).

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • We will also discover the unique interrelatedness of tea and perfume, such as perfuming teas with flowers and using tea notes in modern perfumery.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • We will also discover the unique interrelatedness of tea and perfume, such as perfuming teas with flowers and using tea notes in modern perfumery.

    Botanical Alchemy Series Ayala Sender 2007

  • He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • I then had to resign myself to waiting ... for what seemed like forever ... while these baked up, perfuming the whole house with a sweet bran aroma.

    What Seymour Made! Sarah 2009

  • He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Except that you live in New York and no matter where I move it is a mid-sized Southern town with a large military base and paper mills perfuming the tri-county area with fart blossoms.

    Today's Fashion Week Moment(s) 2010

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