"enfleurage" meaning in English

See enfleurage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌɑ̃.fluˈɹɑʒ/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-enfleurage.ogg Forms: enfleurages [plural]
Etymology: From French enfleurage. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|enfleurage}} French enfleurage Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} enfleurage (usually uncountable, plural enfleurages)
  1. The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol. Wikipedia link: enfleurage Tags: uncountable, usually Derived forms: absolute of enfleurage Related terms: fat washing Translations (the process of extracting fragrance from flowers): enfleurage [masculine] (French), анфлера́жа (anfleráža) [feminine] (Macedonian), enfloraje (Spanish), maceración [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "enfleurage"
      },
      "expansion": "French enfleurage",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French enfleurage.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enfleurages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "enfleurage (usually uncountable, plural enfleurages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "absolute of enfleurage"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The perfumes of plants like jasmine could only be extracted by enfleurage, as other methods of the time would denature the scents.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 652:",
          "text": "‘Thereʼs a man in Somerset who claims heʼs invented a method of enfleurage that requires no alcohol.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor:",
          "text": "I was set on developing a lilac enfleurage from my own shrub.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol."
      ],
      "id": "en-enfleurage-en-noun-MB~9zSZR",
      "links": [
        [
          "fragrance",
          "fragrance"
        ],
        [
          "essential oil",
          "essential oil"
        ],
        [
          "flower",
          "flower"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fat washing"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "enfleurage"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "anfleráža",
          "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "анфлера́жа"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
          "word": "enfloraje"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maceración"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "enfleurage"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑ̃.fluˈɹɑʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-enfleurage.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4c/En-us-enfleurage.ogg/En-us-enfleurage.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-us-enfleurage.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "enfleurage"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "absolute of enfleurage"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "enfleurage"
      },
      "expansion": "French enfleurage",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French enfleurage.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enfleurages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "enfleurage (usually uncountable, plural enfleurages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fat washing"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The perfumes of plants like jasmine could only be extracted by enfleurage, as other methods of the time would denature the scents.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 652:",
          "text": "‘Thereʼs a man in Somerset who claims heʼs invented a method of enfleurage that requires no alcohol.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor:",
          "text": "I was set on developing a lilac enfleurage from my own shrub.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fragrance",
          "fragrance"
        ],
        [
          "essential oil",
          "essential oil"
        ],
        [
          "flower",
          "flower"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "enfleurage"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɑ̃.fluˈɹɑʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-enfleurage.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4c/En-us-enfleurage.ogg/En-us-enfleurage.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-us-enfleurage.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "enfleurage"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "anfleráža",
      "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анфлера́жа"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
      "word": "enfloraje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the process of extracting fragrance from flowers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maceración"
    }
  ],
  "word": "enfleurage"
}

Download raw JSONL data for enfleurage meaning in English (2.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.