PER-DU'PER-DU'
PER-DU, or PER-DUE, adv. [Fr. perdu, lost, from perdre, to lose, L. perdo.]
Close; in concealment. The moderator, out of view, / Beneath the desk had lain perdue. – Trumbull's M' Fingall.
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