parures
- plural of parure.
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
Amices ⁊ parures · worldliche leafdis mahen inoh wurchen · ant ȝef ȝe ham makieð; ne makie ȝe þrof na mustreisun · veine gloire attreð alle 80 gode þeawes · ⁊ alle gode werkes.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
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 Gaboriau, Émile
But on its simplicity a priesthood shook parures.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
