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perche

/pɛʁʃ/

noun, feminine/pɛʁʃ/plural: perches

pole; pole-vaulting; pole; T-bar; boom (for microphone etc.); perch (for birds)

Inherited from Old French perche, from Latin pertica, through a contracted Vulgar Latin form *pert'ca. Compare Catalan perxa.

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