Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Dark grayish blue or purple.
Wiktionary
- n. A dark purplish black colour
- adj. Of a dark purplish black colour
Etymologies
- Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formation from Latin Persicus, Persian, from Greek Persikos, a Persian, from Persēs, a Persian, from Old Persian Pārsa, of Median origin; akin to Old Persian Parthava-, Parthian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It happened to me while "snacking", and the gun was lying muzzle forward next to my feet, so it wasn't "across" my lap, perse `, but I wasn't holding it either.”
“I thought about starting with my Mother who is not a woman in computing perse but who was an early advocate for me becoming one.”
“They say nothing about HCI, Systems, (a little about) Networking, perse, but require skills in all these areas.”
“On the other hand, I thought that this comment was perceptive (and not an accusation of racism perse):”
“But since most hospitals (any that accept Medicare or Medicaid patients) will accept uninsured patients, it may have to do with the areas uninsured people tend to live in and which hospital is closest to them rather than their lack of insurance perse.”
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“This is true even in the Urban 4-H programs where most of the young shooters (or their parents) are not neccesarily primarily interested in hunting perse.”
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“Its not the tea party perse but it is the fringies among them, the militant sprouting up among these fringies and the just plain loudmopuths try to score politically.”
“Also its not really a ass kicking perse but certainetly a beatdown since TDK was in its third weekend.”
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“This is true even in the Urban 4-H programs where most of the young shooters or their parentsare not neccesarily primarily interested in hunting perse.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Changes in the Gun Culture over the last 25 years
“On the other hand, I thought that this comment was perceptive and not an accusation of racism perse:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘perse’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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colors
This list aims to contain words whose primary definition describes the color itself, unlike gold, silver, rust, turquoise, etc. Of course red can mean communist, blue can mean sad, yellow can mean ...
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, purple, pink, grey, gray, white, black and 25 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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wearable materials
fabrics, wools, furs, etc.
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itsmemandy's Words
crabwise, incognito, congeal, coagulate, incinerate, immolate, appease, acquiesce, redux, secrecy, atria, shakuhachi and 114 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Finlandization
Peculiar Finnish Lexicon. At your own risk.
pippeli, pissis, äiti, nöf nöf, isä, saippuakauppias, sää, lammas, peli, pupu, molotov cocktail, sisu and 29 more...
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The Color Perple
Words that start with "per."
perhaps, perchance, pervade, persnickety, pervert, persia, person, permeate, percent, perch, percolate, perky and 40 more...
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Colorations
visible light
perse, albescent, argent, pellucid, verdant, azure, bluzonia, cerise, rainbow-hued, chartreuse, auburn
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Colors Categorized: Purples
Exactly what it says on the tin
purple, violet, lilac, lavender, grape, amethyst, aubergine, eggplant, plum, amaranthine, heliotrope, vinaceous and 11 more...
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Of Color
chartreuse, cerise, flaxen, azure, viridescent, sable, mauve, mulberry, violaceous, orchid, lilac, puce and 41 more...
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Random
cerograph, calculary, hambeast, canescent, animalculum, atavistic, bloomery, wroth, parturition, obstreperous, sibilant, pourparler and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for perse.
fbharjo an arrangement between the 'blue' and the 'gray' May 6, 2010
lea Yes! It's Finnish and it means "ass". Feb 17, 2010
milosrdenstvi All the examples are wrong! Dec 23, 2009