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Definition of Prowest
1. prow [adj] - See also: prow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prowest
Literary usage of Prowest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen by Aberdeen (Scotland), John Stuart (1871)
"... the men- prowest, baillies, and councell binds and ... be direct frome the
prowest, Generall baillies, councell, ministrie, ..."
2. The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland: From the Slauchter of King James the by Robert Lindsay (1899)
"... it bot lay ane lang tyme in Scott- land and did no goode bot ewill.2 THE XIX
CHAPTER. Hou the Frenchmen slew the prowest of Edinburgh and his eldest ..."
3. The Fall of the Nibelungers: Otherwise the Book of Kriemhild by William Nanson Lettsom (1850)
"With him at every season was many a prowest chief Alike of heathen doctrine and
of the true belief. Whate'er his faith, each warrior was prompt at ..."
4. Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen by Joseph Robertson (1857)
"Alexander Mingis son to Andrew prowest the third married Elizabeth Leslie doghter
... Gilbert Mingis son to Dauid prowest the fifth married Marjorie Chamber ..."
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