Associations to the word «Perdu»

Wiktionary

PERDU, adjective. Hidden.
PERDU, adjective. Lost (from a soldier given a mission he is not expected to return from).
PERDU, noun. One placed on watch, or in ambush.
PERDU, noun. A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope