enfant perdu
noun
a soldier assigned to a dangerous post.
enfants perdus
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pluralof enfant perdu.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The victims of society, the unfortunate, the enfants perdus, must be retained, when aided at all, in public institutions.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
It is raked alike by the old-fashioned artillery of the churches and by the fatal weapons of precision with which the enfants perdus of the advancing forces of science are armed.
From The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science by Thomas Henry Huxley
According to one story, the enfants perdus of the revolutionary party—Catiline, Autronius and others—designed to assassinate the consuls on the 1st of January 65, and make Crassus dictator, with Caesar as master of the horse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
They are our enfants perdus, grown up to young manhood.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
Professor Huxley speaks of the hopeless position of Christian divines 'raked by the fatal weapons of precision with which the enfants perdus of the advancing forces of science are armed.'
From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
