Complete Definition of "parure"

English
Etymology
From Old (and modern) French #French|parure, from parer �pare�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/p��r��/ (UK)

Noun
en-noun

  1. A set of jewellery to be worn together.

#*1979: Why, then, was she not in Bond Street, as advertised, scribbling her signature on Travellers' Cheques and scooping up emerald parures and things? � Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001, p. 202)

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