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▪ I. perse, a. and n.2 arch.|pɜːs|
Forms: 4–6 pers, 4 perce, peers, (5 perske), 6 peirs, 5, 7– perse.
[ME. a. OF. pers, -e, = Pr. pers, It. perso:—late L. persus (in med.L., Du Cange): see Note below.]
In early writers, Blue, bluish, bluish-grey; in later writers often taken (after Italian) as a dark obscure blue or purplish black; also n. as name of the colour, or of a stuff of the colour.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 67 It hath hewes an hundred payr, Of gras & floures, inde and pers, And many hewes ful dyvers. c1386― Prol. 439 In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al. Ibid. 617 A long surcote of pers vp on he hade. 1438Bk. Alexander Gt. (Bann. Cl.) 107 (Flowers) Purpur, bloncat, pale & pers. c1500Melusine 126 The eldest..hath one eye redde, & that other ey is perske & blew. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 106 Behaldand thame sa mony diuers hew, Sum pers, sum paill, sum burnet, and sum blew. 1658Phillips, Perse, sky colour. 1848J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno (1849) 78 The water was darker far than perse [buia molto piu che persa]. 1884V. Lee Euphorion II, Whirled incessantly in the perse, dark, stormy air.
b. Comb. as † perseblewe.
a1490Botoner Itin. (1778) 88 Cum tribus robis de purpyre et de perseblewe.
[Note. The Romanic word was perh. a back-formation from Persia, or L. Persæ Persians, Persicus Persian. Med.L. had also, in same sense, perseus, and persicus (cf. perske above). Du Cange approves of the view of Acarisius that perseus was a deriv. of persa, Ital. name of marjoram, referring to the colour; others would explain persicus as peach-coloured, from persica peach (itself from Persicus Persian).
In ælfric's Gloss. (Wr.-Wülcker 163/29) L. perseus is glossed blǽwen, i.e. light blue. But Florio 1611 makes It. perso ‘a darke or blacke mourning colour; some take it for the colour of dead Marioram. Some have also vsed it for a Peach colour.’ Cf. Dante Convito iv. xx. 14 Il perso è un colore misto di purpureo e di nero, ma vince il nero. See also Littré as to range of meaning in French, and P. Toynbee Dante Studies 314 The colour perse in Dante and other mediæval writers.]
▪ II. perse
obs. form of Parsee, pierce. |