pruce
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English Pruce (“Prussia”) (whence also spruce), from new Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Compare French Prusse.
Noun edit
pruce (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Prussian leather.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book III, page 50:
- Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers uſe, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce.
References edit
- “pruce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.