Siege Perilous: Meaning and Definition of

Siege' Per'ilous

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— Arthurian Romance. Arthurian Romance.
  1. a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
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