parureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pəˈɹʊə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

名詞

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?

関連する語

• demie parure

アナグラム

• rear up, uprear