Prudʹhomme
.A Mons. Prudʹhomme. A man of experience and great prudence, of estimable character and practical good sense. Your Mons. Prudʹhomme is never a man of genius and originality, but what we in England should term a “Quaker of the old school.”
The council of prudʹhommes. A council of arbiters to settle disputes between masters and workmen.