Perse
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Perse may refer to:
- Perse, Persa or Perseis, an OceanidOceanidIn Greek mythology and, later, Roman mythology, the Oceanids were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Each was the patroness of a particular spring, river, sea, lake, pond, pasture, flower or cloud...
, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology, wife of Helios - The Perse SchoolThe Perse SchoolThe Perse Upper School is an independent secondary co-educational day school in Cambridge, England. The school was founded in 1615 by Dr Stephen Perse, a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and has existed on several different sites in the city before its present home on Hills...
, an independent co-educational school in Cambridge, England - Perse School for GirlsPerse School for GirlsThe Stephen Perse Foundation is an independent, fee-paying day school situated near the centre of Cambridge, England. The Foundation is made up of four schools: The Stephen Perse Pre-Prep School, for boys and girls aged 3-7, Perse Girls Junior School,for girls aged 7-11, Perse Girls Senior School,...
, an independent girls school in Cambridge, England - Stephen PerseStephen PerseStephen Perse was an English academic and philanthropist.He was probably educated at Norwich School, and took his B.A. degree at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1569, where he was later elected to a fellowship...
, the founder of The Perse School - Saint-John PerseSaint-John PerseSaint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...
, a French diplomat and poet - Broderie perseBroderie perseBroderie Perse is a style of applique embroidery which uses printed elements to create a scene on the background fabric. It was most popular in Europe in the 17th century, and probably travelled from India, as there are some earlier findings there...
, a sewing technique - Perse, a genus of fossil snails in the family FasciolariidaeFasciolariidaeFasciolariidae, common name the "tulip snails and spindle snails", is a family of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea....
- Virachola perseVirachola perseThe Large Guava Blue, Virachola perse is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia....
, a type of butterfly - A river and a waterfall in KokneseKokneseKoknese is a historic town in Latvia, the administrative centre of Koknese municipality on the right bank of the Daugava River. It has a population of nearly 3,000.-History:...
manor park, Aizkraukle District, Latvia
See also
- Finnish profanityFinnish profanityMany Finns frequently use profanity in everyday speech even though their culture is considered more high context. While not all Finns swear, frequent swearing is a mark of youth culture...
- PerséePerséePersée is a tragédie lyrique with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault, first performed in 1682 at the Paris Opéra.-Roles:-Synopsis:...
- Persia (disambiguation)Persia (disambiguation)Persia may refer to the following:*Iran, the country's exonym, officially and unofficially, in the West until 1935 was Persia. In that year the official exonym was equated with the ancient endonym, Iran, per Reza Shah Pahlavi's request...
- Pers (disambiguation)
- Purse (disambiguation)
- Percy (disambiguation)
- per se (disambiguation)