perdu
/pəːˈdjuː/(also perdue)
adjective
1In extended use: placed in an extremely hazardous position or situation; (of a case or situation) desperate; lost. Now rare.
2Of people.
Origin
Late 16th century (in an earlier sense). From Middle French perdu lost, perished (980 in Old French; French perdu, feminine perdue), past participle of perdre from classical Latin perdere; chiefly after Middle French, French sentinelle perdue.
- Lincoln green
- Lincoln Memorial
- Lincoln red
- Lincolnshire
- Lincoln's Inn
- Lincrusta
- Lincs.
- linctus
- lindane
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
- Lindbergh, Charles
- Lindemann, Frederick Alexander
- linden
- Lindisfarne
- Lind, James
- Lind, Jenny
- Lindsay
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Lindum Colonia
- line
- line abreast
- lineage
- line ahead
- lineal
- lineally