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frangipani

[ fran-juh-pan-ee, -pah-nee ]

noun

, plural fran·gi·pan·is, fran·gi·pan·i.
  1. a tree or shrub of the genus Plumeria, especially Plumeria rubra, or the flowers from this tree.
  2. a perfume prepared from or imitating the scent of the Plumeria rubra flower.


frangipani

/ ˌfrændʒɪˈpɑːnɪ /

noun

  1. any tropical American apocynaceous shrub of the genus Plumeria , esp P. rubra , cultivated for its waxy typically white or pink flowers, which have a sweet overpowering scent
  2. a perfume prepared from this plant or resembling the odour of its flowers
  3. native frangipani
    an Australian evergreen tree, Hymenosporum flavum , with large fragrant yellow flowers: family Pittosporaceae
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of frangipani1

First recorded in 1860–65; from French frangipane, after Marquis Muzio Frangipane or Frangipani a 16th-century Italian nobleman, the supposed inventor of the perfume
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Word History and Origins

Origin of frangipani1

C17: via French from Italian: perfume for scenting gloves, named after the Marquis Muzio Frangipani , 16th-century Roman nobleman who invented it
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Example Sentences

Instead, it smelled of frangipani and the tangy bite of the ocean.

Outside of the South Pacific, Fiji, an island nation of about a million people, is seen as a remote vacation idyll: frangipani flowers, golden beaches, cobalt seas.

The fragrance of frangipani, honeysuckle, and jasmine grew heavy enough to strangle a man.

Then you see the dusty frangipani trees, their fragrant buds just starting to open.

The flame trees blaze with vermilion flowers, and the frangipani’s fragrance is at its most intense in May, before the monsoons move in.

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