parure
noun
a matching set of jewels or ornaments.
parures
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pluralof parure.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
And quick she seized the opportunity charitably to enumerate the parures in her jewel-case, and laces in her drawers, and the dresses in her wardrobes.
From Other People's Money by Émile Gaboriau
