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adjectiveperlous (comparative more perlous, superlative most perlous)
comparative more perlous · superlative most perlous
- obsoleteObsolete form of perilous.
Ne would for price or prayers once affoord To ferry that old man over that perlous foord.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19
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