parure

Old French pareure, parure. See French parure below.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹʊə/

parure (plural parures)

1. A set of jewellery to be worn together.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in Who Stole the Black Diamonds ?‎:

     “… 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 2001, p. 202)

     Why, then, was she not in Bond Street, as advertised, scribbling her signature on Travellers' Cheques and scooping up emerald parures and things?

• rear up, uprear

First attested in Old French, from parer +‎ -ure.

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁyʁ/

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parure f (plural parures)

1. parure
2. finery

• “parure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French parure.

parure f (invariable)

1. A set of matching lingerie or jewellery