parure

English

Etymology

Old French pareure, parure. See French parure below.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹʊə/
• Rhymes: -ʊə

Noun

parure (plural parures)

1. 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?

Related terms

• demie parure

Anagrams

• rear up, uprear

French

Etymology

First attested in Old French, from parer +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁyʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

parure f (plural parures)

1. parure
2. finery
3. adornment

Derived terms

• grande parure

Further reading

• “parure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French parure.

Noun

parure f (invariable)

1. a set of matching lingerie or jewellery