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 Per’fume (2 syl.)Pe’ri (plur. PERIS). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Perfumed Terms of the Time.
 
So Ben Jonson calls euphemisms.   1
 


 Per’fume (2 syl.)Pe’ri (plur. PERIS). 

 
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