Adjective: perclus
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | perclus |
| Singular f. | percluse |
| Plural m. | perclus |
| Plural f. | percluses |
Sample Sentences
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J'étais demeuré à la fenêtre, immobile, perclus, paralysé. (I was still at the window, motionless, frozen, paralysed.) [1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné, section XIII:]
Adjectives inflected like perclus
soumis,
javanais,
versaillais,
bernois,
dieppois,
dauphinois,
yprois,
bangladais,
longueuillois,
néozélandais,
presbourgeois,
molenbeekois,
yukonais,
carthaginois,
plaisirois,
bahianais,
perclus,
pervers,
lorientais,
torontois, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin perclūsus (“obstructed”), past participle of perclūdō (“to seal shut”) (infinitive perclūdere).
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