Definitions for enfleurage

enfleurage en·fleu·rage

Spelling: [ahn-fluh-rahzh; French ahn-f
IPA: /ˌɑ̃ fləˈrɑʒ; French ɑ̃ flœˈraʒ/

Enfleurage is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in enfleurage (aeeefglnru).

Definitions for enfleurage

noun

  1. a process of extracting perfumes by exposing inodorous oils or fats to the exhalations of flowers.

Origin of enfleurage

1850-55; French, equivalent to enfleur(er) to impregnate with scent of flowers (en- en-1 + -fleurer, derivative of fleur flower) +

Examples for enfleurage

The flowers are worked up at the factory directly they arrive by the enfleurage process.

Another method of extracting the scent of flowers is by enfleurage, which takes advantage of the tendency of fats to absorb odors.

They are treated by maceration and enfleurage, chiefly the latter.

They are finished off, however, by the process of enfleurage, in which the frames before alluded to are made use of.

Descending to the cellar—the coolest part of the building—we find the simple apparatus used in the process of enfleurage.

Emulsin of other odors can be prepared with tubereuse, rose, or cassie (acacia) oil (prepared by enfleurage or maceration).

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