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- proper noun A
diminutive of the femalegiven name Prudence .
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Examples
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Where Prue is short, plump, unfashionable, and rather disheveled, her half-siblings are each striking, precise, intense — almost too good to be true, at least at first glance.
The Secrets of His Succession Wolff, Michael 2008
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Two months after the break with Anna, and three weeks after his daughter Prudence and her family accompany her forlorn father on a sailing holiday where he keeps slipping off to take his behind-closed-door phone calls, he calls Prue, as he’ll call the three other kids, and says, “I just wanted to tell you — hmmm … humm … ahhhh — I’ve met a nice Chinese lady.”
The Secrets of His Succession Wolff, Michael 2008
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Phoebe called Prue back when she started toward the crowd gathered around the front door.
Beware What You Wish Diana G. Gallagher 2001
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Guinivere stood in grave danger of being called Prue, after somebody's grandmother, and Henrietta was to be shortened to Etta.
Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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The 13-year-old schoolgirl, also known as Prue, has been feared slain since at least 2009, when police identified notorious Bega schoolgirl killer Les Camilleri as a key suspect in the case.
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Prue, that is true that most readers aren’t going to go to youtube to book shop.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Book Trailers 101 — plus WU special offer 2010
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There were all sounds of pastoral beauty, of a tranquil landscape such as Prue loves -- and which shall be painted as the background of her portrait whenever she sits to any of my many artist friends -- and that pastoral beauty shall be called England; I strained my eyes into the cruel mist that held all that music and all that suggested beauty, but I could see nothing.
Prue and I George William Curtis 1858
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"Prue" was Steele's favourite name for his wife; here it means "prude," and no doubt Steele sometimes thought "dear Prue" was unnecessarily and unreasonably particular.]
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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What rendered the situation more piquant, -- Mr. Crowe adds, -- all this took place on the site of old Montague House, where, as St.ele's "Prue" says to St. John in the novel, "you wretches go and fight duels." [
De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880
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One of them is Kalee Prue, 29, who got E. coli O157: H7 from the first bottle of unpasteurized milk she ever drank, in 2008.
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