Crossword clues for perdu
perdu
- Concealed in ambush
- Remaining out of sight
- In concealment
- End of a Proust title
- Lost in Paris?
- Proust's "Ë la Recherche du Temps ___"
- Proust's "À la recherche du temps ___"
- Proust's ''A la recherche du temps ___''
- Proust title word
- Placed on watch
- Pain ___ (French toast, in France)
- Lost, in La Salle
- Concealed, or the last word in a Proust title
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perdu \Per*du"\ (p[~e]r*d[=u]" or p[~e]r"d[-u]), n. [See Perdu, a.]
One placed on watch, or in ambush.
A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.
--Shak.
Perdu \Per*du"\, Perdue \Per*due"\ (p[~e]r*d[=u]" or p[~e]r"d[-u]), a. [F. perdu, f. perdue, lost, p. p. of perdre to lose, L. perdere. See Perdition.]
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Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.
He should lie perdue who is to walk the round.
--Fuller. Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. ``A perdue captain.''
--Beau. & Fl.
Wiktionary
a. 1 hidden. 2 lost (from a soldier given a mission he is not expected to return from). alt. 1 One placed on watch, or in ambush. 2 A soldier sent on a forlorn hope. n. 1 One placed on watch, or in ambush. 2 A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.
Wikipedia
Perdu may refer to:
- À corps perdu, 1988 Canadian film, titled Straight for the Heart in English
- “ Le temps perdu”, 1956 French song
- Les Marins perdus, 2003 French film
- Les Pas perdus, 1964 French film
- Mont Perdu (Spanish: Monte Perdido), mountain in the Pyrenees
- Perdu Temps River, river on the Caribbean island of Dominica
Usage examples of "perdu".
Eight generations of the de la Chevaux family had lived in Louisiana on Bayou Perdu.
Ia Chevaux since Korea and had no idea that he would be present, in his role as Supreme Grand Knight Commander of the Bayou Perdu Council, Knights of Columbus, at the reception.
Dragon, le porte-monnaie sac brun perdu vendredi 10 courant, car N ou Boulevard Louis XIV, contenant lettres prisonnier, photos et papiers.
Bayou Perdu and New Orleans, and a new fiberglass Boston Whaler tied to one of the forty-foot classic columns at the front of the mansion.
For Marcel Proust, whose fifteen-volume A la Recherche du Temps Perdu is a long-drawn-out struggle to recall and thus to transcend a painful past, the trigger which evokes the entire history is the taste of a madeleine cake.
But forasmuch as the good works that men do while they be in good life be all amortised [killed, deadened] by sin following, and also since all the good works that men do while they be in deadly sin be utterly dead, as for to have the life perdurable [everlasting], well may that man that no good works doth, sing that new French song, J'ai tout perdu -- mon temps et mon labour .
Mars and all forward images were obscured by the four-sun glare of the engines, but Mahnmut passed the time by checking on video of the hull, the stars astern, and by rereading parts ofÀ la recherche du temps perdu and finding connections and disparities with his beloved Shakespearean sonnets.
She read Sartre, Recherche du temps perdu, and, for the first time in her life, War and Peace.