1. perse - Noun
2. perse - Adjective
3. perse - Verb
4. Perse - Proper noun
A dark blue-gray colour.
A cloth of this colour.
perse
Dark greyish blue or purple.
perse (third-person singular simple present perses, present participle persing, simple past and past participle persed or perst)
Obsolete form of pierce.
Perse
(Greek mythology) An Oceanid, (one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans' Oceanus and Tethys), and the wife of the sun god, Helios, with who she is the mother of Aeetes, Perses, Pasiphae and Circe. One of her many sisters is Amphitrite, (the wife of Poseidon). Perse is also closely identified with Hecate.
Perse
A rare surname transferred from the given name.
Helios and his wife Perse (or Perses) had four children: Aeëtes, Circe, Pasiphae, and Perses. Source: Internet
Relief from Susa. 19th-century engraving of Daniel's tomb in Susa, from Voyage en Perse Moderne, by Flandin and Coste. Source: Internet
Perse won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative images of his poetry, which, in a visionary fashion, reflects the conditions of our time." Source: Internet
New to Main Street, Park City, MONROE men’s stocks contemporary apparel, footwear and accessories from rag&bone,James Perse and Vince. Source: Internet
Hence, the entire country used to be called Perse by the ancient Greeks, a practice continued to this day. Source: Internet