pruce

See also: Pruce and pruće

English

Etymology

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

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: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book III, page 50:
  Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers uſe, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce.

References

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

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