Pruceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pruce (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Prussian leather.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane, OCLC 228732415, book III, page 50:

     Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers uſe, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce.

参照

• pruce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913