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noun

Percher n.

One who, or that which, perches.

One of the Insessores.

A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Percher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Percher" Quotes from Famous Books

... IV.'s Esquiers for the Body, IIII, had 'for wynter lyverey from All Hallowentide (Nov.1) tyll Estyr, one percher wax, one candell wax, ij candells Paris, one tallwood and dim{idium}, and wages in the countyng-house.' H.Ord. p.36. So the Bannerettes, IIII, or Bacheler Knights (p.32), who are kervers and cupberers, take 'for wynter season, from Allhallowentyde till Estyr, one tortays, ...

— Early English Meals and Manners • Various

... and those only are perennial matters that rouse us to-day, and that roused men in all epochs of the past. There is a certain critic, not indeed of execution but of matter, whom I dare be known to set before the best: a certain low-browed, hairy gentleman, at first a percher in the fork of trees, next (as they relate) a dweller in caves, and whom I think I see squatting in cave-mouths, of a pleasant afternoon, to munch his berries - his wife, that accomplished lady, squatting by his side: his name I never heard, but he is often described as Probably Arboreal, ...

— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson

Words linked to "Percher" : soul, animal order, perching bird, class Aves, order Insessores, somebody, someone, Insessores, individual, Aves