parure
English edit
Etymology edit
Old French pareure, parure. See French parure below.
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Noun edit
parure (plural parures)
- A set of jewellery to be worn together.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “Who Stole the Black Diamonds ?”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “… among the objects stolen was the famous parure of Black Diamonds, for which a bid of half a million sterling had just been made and accepted. […]”
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 202:
- Why, then, was she not in Bond Street, as advertised, scribbling her signature on Travellers' Cheques and scooping up emerald parures and things?
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French edit
Etymology edit
First attested in Old French, from parer + -ure.
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Noun edit
parure f (plural parures)
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Further reading edit
- “parure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Noun edit
parure f (invariable)