2. Adjective. Of a dark purplish black colour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perse
1. a blue color [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perse
Literary usage of Perse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"... Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, Grand Officier de l'Ordre du Lion et du
Soleil de perse, Ex-représentant du Peuple à l'Assemblée nationale, etc. etc. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"During the perse* entions several Christians suffered martyrdom at Milan; among
them Saints Gervasius and Protasius (first persecution of Diocletian), ..."
3. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... perse them. Ferguson lay, with his whole force, at that time, exactly between.
The detachment amounted to six hundred horsemen. ..."
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