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Definition of Prudes
1. prude [n] - See also: prude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prudes
Literary usage of Prudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1814)
"prudes. WHEN I hear women inveigh too vehemently against the objects of this
misfortune, I am apt to suspect their hearts to be a good deal inflamed with a ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The lady was more notorious than reputable : Cease, ye prudes, your envious
railing, Lovely Hums has charms—confess I True it is, she has one failing,— Had ..."
3. Jonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American Society by Max O'Rell, Jack Allyn (1889)
"New England prudes.— Tattling or Calumny ? ' HE New England descendants of the
Puritans have inherited a more than British prudery. ..."
4. The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill by Dorothy Nevill (1906)
"... a young man— He paints my portrait—Venice—Lord Alvanley and the last of the
Foscari—An anecdote of Victor Emmanuel—A ballet for prudes—Andreas Hofer and ..."
5. The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill by Dorothy Nevill (1906)
"... the last of the Foscari—An anecdote of Victor Emmanuel—A ballet for prudes—Andreas
Hofer and his son—Return to England. BESIDES the house in Norfolk, ..."
6. The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill by Dorothy Nevill, Ralph Nevill (1906)
"... Alvanley and the last of the Foscari—An anecdote of Victor Emmanuel—A ballet
for prudes—Andreas Hofer and his son—Return to England. ..."
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