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parure

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pa·rure  (p-rr)
n.
A set of matched jewelry or other ornaments.

[French, from Old French, adornment, from parer, to adorn; see pare.]

parure [pəˈrʊə]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Jewellery) a set of jewels or other ornaments
[from Old French pareure adornment, from parer to embellish, from Latin parāre to arrange]


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They are already sufficiently detached from religion to think of their beauty, to take care of it, to correct without relaxation their parure of statues or arabesques.
 
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