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Prudʹhomme

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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.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Protocol
Protoplasm, Sarcode
Protozoa
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Proudfute (Oliver)
Prout
Province
Provincial
Prudent Tree (The)
Prudhomme
Prunello
Prussia
Prussian Blue
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Psalmist
Psalter of Tara (The)
Psaphon’s Birds (Psaphonis aves)
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