Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lost to sight; hidden; in concealment; in ambush.
- Being on a forlorn hope; sent on a desperate enterprise.
- noun A soldier serving on a forlorn hope (in French enfant perdu); a person in desperate case.
- noun One who is morally lost or abandoned.
- noun In cookery, something concealed or ambuscaded: same as
surprise .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
perdu . - adjective obsolete Accustomed to, or employed in,
desperate enterprises ;reckless ;hopeless .
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Examples
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The decanter was created using the traditional and now-rare technique of cire perdue, meaning "lost wax," and is shaped with a flat bottom, like the decanters used on board ships in the 1820s.
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Moi j'etais dans la voiture a un stop donc je n'ai pas pu aider la vieille femme qui 'perdue' est resté abasourdie au milieu du passage clouté immobile a regarder de droite a gauche ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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Duchess of Hereward adopted little Marie Perdue; "perdue" no longer, but the cherished pet of a fond foster-mother.
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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His insistence on using the techniques of antiquity—he still scales up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method—result in work that is completely contemporary, yet also somehow fragments that could have come from any point in the history of Western art.
A Magnificent Obsession Andrew McKie 2011
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Andrew Testa/Panos for The Wall Street Journal He still insists on using the techniques of antiquity—scaling up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method.
Wild Horses Andrew McKie 2011
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His insistence on using the techniques of antiquity—he still scales up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method—result in work that is completely contemporary, yet also somehow fragments that could have come from any point in the history of Western art.
A Magnificent Obsession Andrew McKie 2011
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Andrew Testa/Panos for The Wall Street Journal He still insists on using the techniques of antiquity—scaling up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method.
Wild Horses Andrew McKie 2011
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If you are a ceo of perdue, then you become the president of united states, be gauranteed the chickens will be very costly, just like oil.
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I snuck a look at his first edition set of Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdue."
Archive 2007-08-01 Jes Battis 2007
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This was no perdue leg from the super market but was pretty tasty.
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