Tra từ perfume - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

per·fume [perfume perfumes perfumed perfuming] noun, verb BrE [ˈpɜːfjuːm] NAmE [pərˈfjuːm]
noun countable, uncountable
1. a liquid, often made from flowers, that you put on your skin to make yourself smell nice
•a bottle of expensive perfume
•We stock a wide range of perfumes.
•the perfume counter of the store
•She was wearing too much perfume.
•There was strong smell of cheap perfume in the car.
2. a pleasant, often sweet, smell
Syn: ↑scent
•the heady perfume of the roses

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (originally denoting pleasant-smelling smoke from a burning substance, especially one used in fumigation): from French parfum (noun), parfumer (verb), from obsolete Italian parfumare, literally ‘to smoke through’.

Example Bank:
•He caught a faint whiff of her expensive perfume.
•She dabbed some perfume on her wrists.
•She reeked of cheap perfume.
•She works on the perfume counter.
•The letter had been sprayed with perfume.
•The lilies release their heady perfume in the evening.
•The perfume of the roses filled the room.
•You could smell the perfume of the lilies.
•The perfume of orange blossom filled the air.
•The roses gave off a heady perfume.
Derived Word: ↑perfumed

verb often passive
1. ~ sth (with sth) (literary) (especially of flowers)to make the air in a place smell pleasant
Syn: ↑scent
•The garden was perfumed with the smell of roses.
•One bloom has the power to perfume a whole room.
2. ~ sth (with sth) to put ↑perfume in or on sth
•She perfumed her bath with fragrant oils.
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Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (originally denoting pleasant-smelling smoke from a burning substance, especially one used in fumigation): from French parfum (noun), parfumer (verb), from obsolete Italian parfumare, literally ‘to smoke through’.