parure
Americannoun
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parures
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of parure
1200–50; Middle English < Old French pareure peeling < Latin parātūra ( parāt-, past participle stem of parāre to prepare ( see pare) + -ūra -ure )
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The parure of colored diamonds -- consisting of a necklace, brooch and pair of earrings -- is being offered from an unidentified private collection at Sotheby’s, also in Geneva.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 14, 2011
Poetry was the attribute of his order as joy was the parure of the preux chevalier.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
The Aragonese and Provençals, whom they indoctrinated, made it the basis of the gaya cienca—the gay science of love, and chivalry the parure of the knight.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
Upon his person was found the diamond parure worn by his wife, whom he had left without letting her know whither he was going.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
There was a diamond parure somewhere, of purest water, which would become the new marquise amazingly.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
Set with engraved gemstones, the early 19th century pieces are part of matching jewellery sets, or parures, and were offered as part of auction house Sotheby's "Treasures" sale.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2021
A generation or more older, “Parks” and Beaton were gentlemen society photographers, meaning they were of society, though they of course also shot it, usually wearing parures and carrying a hard-walled purse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2011
She had bespoken several services of gold, and jewellers were revelling in her orders for parures such as princesses would have been proud to possess.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Gautier and Balzac, followed in 1850 by two other volumes named Perles et parures; and some essays in prose and in verse written by him were collected by one of his biographers, Ch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
But on its simplicity a priesthood shook parures.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
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