perdue

English

Adjective

perdue (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of perdu
    • Fuller
      He should lie perdue who is to walk the round.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 7,
      Among certain grizzled sea-gossips of the gun decks and forecastle went a rumor perdue []
  2. (obsolete) Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; reckless; hopeless.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      a perdue captain

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French

Adjective

perdue

  1. feminine singular of perdu

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