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Perchance
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- He fears silence and seems to be angling for music to sleep by, perchance a lullaby.
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perchance
mid-14c., parchaunce, from O.Fr. par cheance, lit. "by chance." With L. per substituted c.1400 for Fr. cognate par.
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