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Definition of perdu in English English dictionary
- Lost (from a soldier given a mission not expected to return from)
- Hidden
- Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close
- Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless
- A soldier sent on a forlorn hope
- {s} concealed, secret; obscured; heedless, hasty, impulsive; out of sight; lost
- {i} soldier sent on dangerous missions
- One placed on watch, or in ambush
- perdue
- {a} closely, secretly, in wait, in ambush
- perdue
- Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close
- perdue
- {i} (Archaic) reconnaissance soldier sent on dangerous missions; concealment, hiding
- perdue
- Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless
- à corps perdu
- (French) 'with lost body", without caution, impulsive; desperately, in despair
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(noun.) 1605. From the French.Resimler
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