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Original by Pretty Mind Clutter

10:00 am - Sat, Jan 7, 2012: 16 notes

The French word: Parure means a set of matching jewelry that usually features the same gems, or in some cases, cameos or in this example, enamels. It’s a very difficult word for a non-native speaker to pronounce because of the two uvular fricative Rs surrounding the tight U sound, like the German Ü [phonetically: y]. The first time I heard it was in 1975, when Guerlain made a perfume with that name. There was a radio commercial with an American woman who was chatted up by a man about her scent, and she said parure beautifully, while explaining how she had studied in Paris.
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Parure for Empress Marie-Louise by François-Regnault Nitot (1810).

The French word: Parure means a set of matching jewelry that usually features the same gems, or in some cases, cameos or in this example, enamels. It’s a very difficult word for a non-native speaker to pronounce because of the two uvular fricative Rs surrounding the tight U sound, like the German Ü [phonetically: y]. The first time I heard it was in 1975, when Guerlain made a perfume with that name. There was a radio commercial with an American woman who was chatted up by a man about her scent, and she said parure beautifully, while explaining how she had studied in Paris.

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Parure for Empress Marie-Louise by François-Regnault Nitot (1810).

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