perclose
English
Noun
perclose (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
References
- “perclose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.