From the French word for "lost." Military scouts dispatched to such advanced and perilous positions that they stand a good chance of not making it back alive.
"Our Purdues lie so near the Enemy, as to hear them discourse."
John Rushworth, Historical Collections (1648)
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A daily calendar of the world's oldest professions
About Me
- Richard Voorhees
- Voorhees' unabridged dictionary of "The World's Oldest Professions" is available on Amazon and at http://www.rgvoorhees.com. Follow him on Twitter @richvoorhees.
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June
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- Thatchers
- Hagglers
- On Tinkers and Tailors
- The French Peasant's Mistress
- Circus Ringmasters
- Dubuque's Plowmen
- Fidler's Pay
- Health
- Too Clever By Half
- Patterers
- Odd-Boy
- Making Hay While the Sun Shines
- Where's Waldo?
- Swift on Hog Merchants
- The Best Boon Companions
- Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor
- Flaubert's Conventional Wisdom on Inventors
- Flunkies
- A Successful Author
- Pandering
- Things That Have Lost Their Power
- The Faint Thump of Fulling Hammers
- Storekeeping
- Coleridge on Metrists
- Fuller Brush Man
- Speculating in Stocks
- Perdu
- Yeast Makers
- Zymologist
- Roguery in a Lord Mayor
- Keep Up the Spirits of Your Patient
- Calligraphers and Matters of the Heart
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