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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as prow.

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Examples

  • They no longer consider the subject of prew-marital sex a 'taboo'.

    Bride with a Honey Moon Knife - 2 2009

  • Ms. Proulx pronounced prew is best known for her second novel, "The Shipping News"

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • Then before the old Gentleman, you must behave your self very soberly, simple, and demure, and look as prew as at a Conventicle; and take heed you drink not off your Glass at Table, nor rant, nor swear: one Oath confounds our Plot, and betrays thee to be an arrant Drab.

    The City Heiress 1682

  • Then before the old Gentleman, you must behave your self very soberly, simple, and demure, and look as prew as at a Conventicle; and take heed you drink not off your Glass at Table, nor rant, nor swear: one

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • The oil, confiscated over the preceding weeks and months, had been distilled from the roots of the mreah prew phnom tree in jungle labs that produced an average of 60 litres a day.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Grip, Will you compound, and take it as my prew fent?

    The New English theatre, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage 1776

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