perclose
English
editNoun
editperclose (plural percloses)
- Alternative form of parclose (“partition, or enclosed place”)
- Alternative form of parclose (“type of heraldic emblem”)
- (obsolete) Conclusion; end.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- it seemeth by the perclose of the same verse, that vagabond is therein understood
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perclose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)