| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| enfleurage |
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| SYLLABICATION: | en·fleu·rage |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n fl -räzh , -räj |
| NOUN: | A process in making perfume in which odorless fats or oils absorb the fragrance of fresh flowers. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from enfleurer, to saturate with the perfume of flowers : en-, causative pref.; see en–1 + fleur, flower (from Old French flour, from Latin fl s, flr-; see bhel-3 in Appendix I).
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