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Definition of Proud flesh
1. Noun. The swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proud Flesh
Literary usage of Proud flesh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"Renew this application, or the whole Treatment, every morning ; and should there
at any time appear any proud flesh, then use the styptic, No. 42. ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"It is sure to make ' proud flesh,' to quote an expressive phrase of Mr. ...
3 It was so with the Tractarian movement; it made much ' proud flesh,' and the ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson (1881)
"It is sure to make ' proud flesh,' to quote an expressive phrase of Mr. ...
3 It was so with the Tractarian movement; it made much ' proud flesh,' and the ..."
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